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02577aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 59F2C7D0300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220909010236 008 200923s2020 xx 000 1 eng d 020 $a 108788280X 020 $a 9781087882802 035 $a (OCoLC)1197071843 040 $a KAY $b eng $e rda $c KAY $d KAY $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Broe, Dennis, $e author. 245 10 $a Left of Eden / $c Dennis Broe. 264 1 $a [Place of publication not identified] : $b Pathmark Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 259 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 0 $a A Harry Palmer mystery 520 $a "Left of Eden is a sordid noir set in postwar Hollywood at the moment when everything in the film industry and the country is about to change because of the looming McCarthy witch hunt and the blacklist. Detective Harry Palmer has been kicked off the LAPD Homicide Squad for graft but that gives him just the right credentials to try to foil a badger or blackmail plot against activist actor Jason "Gabby" Gabriel for a supposed liaison with the underaged daughter of his former co-star. Palmer follows a trail of murder and mayhem that exposes the inner workings of the town and includes: one of the biggest studio heads, New York banker-financiers, writers and directors being hounded by the F.B.I., two-fisted union leaders who act like gangsters, actress wannabees living on the edge, the sordid family of a Hollywood starlet, and the most beautiful and desired woman in the town at the moment. Harry becomes friends with Gabby who is about to be called to testify about his politics, falls hard for Gabby's beautiful girlfriend, and must wind his way through the labyrinth of a duplicitous starlet's family as all around him the bodies are dropping and as everyone seems to want to cash in on Gabby's fast-talking personality, whether he is alive or dead"-- $c Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Private investigators $v Fiction. $9 207190 650 0 $a Actors $v Fiction. $9 209821 650 0 $a Extortion $v Fiction. $9 212239 650 0 $a Blacklisting of entertainers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Motion picture industry $v Fiction. $9 216380 650 0 $a Nineteen forties $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) $v Fiction. $9 199903 655 7 $a Noir fiction. $2 lcgft $9 856521 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft $9 802168 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft $9 802185 941 $a 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909061716.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=59F2C7D0300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search