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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781584440246
ISBN: 1584440244
Label: Disc-Us Books
Manufacturer: Disc-Us Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 232
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher: Disc-Us Books
Studio: Disc-Us Books

Nell Twelvetrees thinks her soon to be ex-husband Roger, a famous talk-show host, is aiming to have her killed and hires P.I. Whistler to be her bodyguard. Beautiful, blonde, rich and classy, she is a mystery that keeps unfolding, luring Whistler deeper and deeper into trouble. For beneath the smiling face of Roger Twelvetrees there hides a sadistic psychopath for whom lust and violence are one.

Yet nothing in La-La Land is what it seems, for behind the facades of the rich and glamorous lie corruption and depravity. And in the darkness of the twisted mean streets lurks the mysterious Alice...Alice who is spinning an intricate web around Twelvetrees to settle an old score.

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Hard to put down with a Chaplin "Modern Times" ending
Review: If you have seen Modern Times you know in the end you highly doubt that beautiful hope they have is going to play out but you still hope. Whistler, the main character, would understand that statement.

It is not a novel for the faint hearted. Campbell explores a world of sex, murder, pleasure and pain. A world of hooker of all sexes and none, TV, Transsexuals, Gender Benders, runaways, throwaways and the atmosphere around them. Set in this is a beautiful woman who isn't what she seems, a star who is what he seems, a daughter who plunged thru the looking glass from Alanta to La-La land. It takes a while but you'll figure out who the Red Queen is, who Alice actually is, who Chessie is, the rabbit and the rest.

Hardbitten, hard boiled and with that hope no matter how lost it is at the end. Not for the faint hearted, not for those who like pink colored glasses. A passing knowledge of Thru the looking glass and Alice in wonderland helps.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Dark P.I. Fiction
Review: Had Phillip Marlowe been working his L.A. beat in the 1980s, he might have been a bit like Robert Cambell's Private Investigator Whistler. Whistler works the underbelly of the city in much the same way Marlowe did. But L.A. has become even more corrupt and morally bankrupt than in Marlowe's day. The sort of human predators that Whistler runs up against are a product of our modern media age. "Alice in La-La Land" is a solid entry in the Whistler series and a good read for anyone who likes detective fiction.

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