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The secrets of Harry Bright / Joseph Wambaugh.
Sidney Blackpool, another divorced, alcoholic Wambaugh homicide detective with the L.A.P.D. whose son Tommy died in a surfing accident a year ago, is plucked from his familiar environs and set down in windy, sand-blasted Mineral Springs, the scratchy underbelly of chi-chi Palm Springs, and promised a very cushy retirement job if he can uncover the likely murderer of multimillionaire Victor Watson ... More's playboy son Jack, who was found burned to a crisp in the desert, with a bullet in his skull.
Record details
- ISBN: 0688059589
- ISBN: 9780688059583
- Physical Description: 345 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Morrow, 1985.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Perigord Press book." |
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| Subject: | Private investigators > California > Los Angeles > Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
Summary:
Sidney Blackpool, another divorced, alcoholic Wambaugh homicide detective with the L.A.P.D. whose son Tommy died in a surfing accident a year ago, is plucked from his familiar environs and set down in windy, sand-blasted Mineral Springs, the scratchy underbelly of chi-chi Palm Springs, and promised a very cushy retirement job if he can uncover the likely murderer of multimillionaire Victor Watson ... More's playboy son Jack, who was found burned to a crisp in the desert, with a bullet in his skull.
