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Capital Crime Press
June 2009
On Sale: June 1, 2009
280 pages
ISBN: 0979996031
EAN: 9780979996030
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Mystery
When Lawe loses his job as Marshal of Potemkin County he
drifts to Los Angeles. Along the way he picks up a
hitchhiker named Al Haine. Haine is a storyteller, a gambler
(who always wins), an ardent Marxist, and a man who carries
a knife strapped to his leg. Lawe has his doubts about
Haine's honesty, but needs someone to share expenses and
driving. Upon arrival in Los Angeles Lawe takes a job as a
stuntman in Gower Gulch, the home of low budget western
movies. Haine picks up work at various studios as an extra
and helps organize a labor movement among the actors. His
union activities get him beaten by union-busting thugs and
Lawe comes to his rescue. Tiring of the physical punishment
of stunt work, Marshal takes a job in studio security at
RKO. He finds that the majority of his work consists of
getting actors out of legal scrapes. The Los Angeles Police
Department is only too happy to cooperate in covering up the
peccadilloes of the stars. When Jean Harlow's husband turns
up dead from a gunshot wound to the temple, Lawe's suspects
that murder has been committed. The policeman in him won't
let him turn his head and he finds himself at odds with the
most powerful executives in Hollywood, who are abetted by a
corrupt detective whose name has already appeared on several
studio-linked murder investigations. His discovery of the
true story behind the man's death also leads to the arrest
of Al Haine, on charges of murder during the Troubles back
in North Ireland.
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