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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781584440529
ISBN: 158444052X
Label: Disc-Us Books
Manufacturer: Disc-Us Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 244
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher: Disc-Us Books
Studio: Disc-Us Books

At the corner of Hollywood and Vine, the news walked straight through the doors of Gentry's Coffee Shop and sat down at Whistler's table. The facts: a boy named Kenny Gotch, a.k.a. Harriet LaRue, was dead, leaving behind a clue to a murder Whistler would rather forget. Whistler once worked alongside police detective Isaac Canaan, searching for whoever stole and mutilated Canaan's little niece and left her body draped over a tombstone in Hollywood Cemetery. Now Whistler sees a chance to solve the crime that still plagues Canaan's soul.

Few know more about Kenny than that he favored purple dresses and rhinestone shoes. His phone was on auto-dial to a boy called Pooch, a professor who looks like Howdy-Doody, and a child-snatching Satanist, but not to Mary Bucket, the pretty nurse who was there when Kenny died...and who has what it takes to put Whistler under her spell. Yet once Canaan himself starts following Kenny's trail of dangerous connections, nothing can keep Whistler from shadowing his progress through a nether world of glittering lies and faded promise, where the only thing that can't be bought is hype.

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Wizard of La-La Land
Review: I really was intrigued by this book. I just finished reading it, and I must say, it is not what I expected. I went against the rules of choosing a book and chose to buy this one because of its title. You must admit that it is a little interesting. So, I read it and now I feel that there is a whole side of Hollywood (aka, La-La Land) that people don't often know about. The book goes into a lot of the action behind the scenes of life in Hollywood. Being from the east coast, it was a new point of view with which to look at the lives of Californians. I can't say that I really liked the book, but the story was definitely one that had promise. The characters were moderately well-developed and there were enough surprises to keep me reading. It's a good book if you like mysteries and the occult.

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