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Blue City

by Ross Macdonald · 1947

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He was a son who hadn't known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murder—his father's murder. Johnny Weatherly was home from a war andwandering. When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father's seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on doors. Thedoors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a place in which his father had once moved freely. Now Johnny Weatherly was going to solve thismurder—by pitting his rage, his courage, and his lost illusions against the brutal underworld that has overtaken his hometown.

Genre
crimemysterydetectiveprivate investigatornoir
Setting
1940sCalifornia
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 214 pages

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