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An edition of The Big Nowhere (1988)

The Big Nowhere

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.8 (5 ratings) ·
  • 17 Want to read
  • 8 Have read

The author of The Black Dahlia presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In The Big Nowhere, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place.

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Mysterious Press
Language
English

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Previews available in: Spanish English

Subjects

Crime, Fiction, Crime in fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Upshaw, danny (fictitious character), fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Communism and society, Mystery & Detective - General, Fiction - Mystery/ Detective, Crime, fiction

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Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles

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Cover of: El Gran Desierto
El Gran Desierto
2011, Ediciones B Grupo Zeta
Paperback in Spanish
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The Big Nowhere
May 1, 1998, Grand Central Publishing
in English
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Cover of: The big nowhere
The big nowhere
1990, Arrow Bks.
in English
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The Big Nowhere
September 1, 1989, Mysterious Press
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The Big Nowhere: A Crime Novel
1988, The Mysterious Press
Hardcover in English
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The big nowhere: a crime novel
1988, Mysterious Press
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The big nowhere: a crime novel
1988, Mysterious Press
in English
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First Sentence

"Thundershowers hit just before midnight, drowning out the horn honks and noisemaker blare that usually signalled New Year's on the Strip, bringing 1950 to the West Hollywood Substation in a wave of hot squeals with meat wagon backup."

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7535080M
Internet Archive
bignowhere00jame
ISBN 10
0445408324
ISBN 13
9780445408326
Library Thing
24622
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987132

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