Bodies, bullets, beaches, blondes, brunettes. Frenetic
Dream TownNot one of his best but brilliantly “Raymond Chandlerish”. Set in Hollywood in the early fifties, Archer, an ex-soldier, ex-convict and current Private Investigator is involved in the seamier side of Tinsel Town as he tries to locate a missing script writer. Inevitably he rubs shoulders with beautiful actresses, corrupt cops, philandering film executives whilst moving between scenes of ostentatious wealth, drug dens, pornography, danger, and heartache. As a noir film it will be brilliant, as a book it struggles with its own frenetic pace.