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Dennis Broe

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Description:Praise for Left of Eden“A terse mash-up of hard-boiled prose and good old-fashioned historical research, Dennis Broe’s Left of Eden drops us inside Blacklist-era Hollywood, a place populated by gangsters, feds, cops, and movie stars … the dangerous and the endangered, the glamorous and the vulnerable, navigating together America’s most beautiful and predatory company town.” --Jon Lewis, author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles“Dennis Broe, a renowned scholar of film noir, has written his own hard-boiled noir masterpiece. Sprinkled with murder, blackmail, and sexual intrigue, this spicy, fast-paced whodunnit is set amidst a Hollywood Blacklist that was used not only to unearth Communists and fellow travelers but to bust burgeoning unions and bolster the corrupt studio system at a time when television was portending the demise of the entire film industry. Join ex-LAPD cop turned PI Harry Palmer along a suspenseful joy-ride down the twisting roads of Laurel Canyon into a Hollywood netherworld that is anything but the glamour industry many assumed it to be.”—Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States“I read with pleasure Left of Eden, a well-written, entertaining pastiche of the Chandler/Ross Macdonald style. Its theme – the blacklisting of central Hollywood characters – links it to another of the most important names in American crime literature, Dashiell Hammett. Harry Palmer falls into the tradition that leads from the Continental Op to Philip Marlowe to Lew Archer. The novel is well-researched about the blacklist period, a theme I do not remember either Chandler or Macdonald ever mentioning.” –Gunnar Staalesen, the Dean of Nordic Noir, author of the We Shall Inherit The Wind and 19 other Varg Veum novels, and predecessor to Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbo and Henning MankellLeft 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 FBI, 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.First of a trilogy about Los Angeles in the 1940s, with the second book, A Hello to Arms, set in the booming defense industry that surrounds the city and the third, The Precinct with the Golden Arm, set amid the politics and prejudices of the LAPD as Harry grapples with his past on the force.Dennis Broe is a scholar and professor, who has taught at The Sorbonne. His specialization is ‘40s Hollywood cinema, the crime film or film noir, and art and culture of the Cold War. His books include: Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood; Class, Crime, and International Film Noir: Globalizing America’s Dark Art; and Cold War Expressionism: Perverting the Politics of Perception. His books on television include Maverick or How the West Was Lost and Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Left of Eden (A Harry Palmer Mystery). To get started finding Left of Eden (A Harry Palmer Mystery), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Praise for Left of Eden“A terse mash-up of hard-boiled prose and good old-fashioned historical research, Dennis Broe’s Left of Eden drops us inside Blacklist-era Hollywood, a place populated by gangsters, feds, cops, and movie stars … the dangerous and the endangered, the glamorous and the vulnerable, navigating together America’s most beautiful and predatory company town.” --Jon Lewis, author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles“Dennis Broe, a renowned scholar of film noir, has written his own hard-boiled noir masterpiece. Sprinkled with murder, blackmail, and sexual intrigue, this spicy, fast-paced whodunnit is set amidst a Hollywood Blacklist that was used not only to unearth Communists and fellow travelers but to bust burgeoning unions and bolster the corrupt studio system at a time when television was portending the demise of the entire film industry. Join ex-LAPD cop turned PI Harry Palmer along a suspenseful joy-ride down the twisting roads of Laurel Canyon into a Hollywood netherworld that is anything but the glamour industry many assumed it to be.”—Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States“I read with pleasure Left of Eden, a well-written, entertaining pastiche of the Chandler/Ross Macdonald style. Its theme – the blacklisting of central Hollywood characters – links it to another of the most important names in American crime literature, Dashiell Hammett. Harry Palmer falls into the tradition that leads from the Continental Op to Philip Marlowe to Lew Archer. The novel is well-researched about the blacklist period, a theme I do not remember either Chandler or Macdonald ever mentioning.” –Gunnar Staalesen, the Dean of Nordic Noir, author of the We Shall Inherit The Wind and 19 other Varg Veum novels, and predecessor to Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbo and Henning MankellLeft 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 FBI, 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.First of a trilogy about Los Angeles in the 1940s, with the second book, A Hello to Arms, set in the booming defense industry that surrounds the city and the third, The Precinct with the Golden Arm, set amid the politics and prejudices of the LAPD as Harry grapples with his past on the force.Dennis Broe is a scholar and professor, who has taught at The Sorbonne. His specialization is ‘40s Hollywood cinema, the crime film or film noir, and art and culture of the Cold War. His books include: Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood; Class, Crime, and International Film Noir: Globalizing America’s Dark Art; and Cold War Expressionism: Perverting the Politics of Perception. His books on television include Maverick or How the West Was Lost and Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Left of Eden (A Harry Palmer Mystery). To get started finding Left of Eden (A Harry Palmer Mystery), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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