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Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s... Read Full Overview

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s... Read Full Overview

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s... Read Full Overview

Bradbury turns hardboiled with this rich, beautifully written homage to the detective novel of the Thirties and Forties--in trade paperback for the first time. A splendid detective novel . . . it is hard to see how anyone could resist the ecstatic vitality of his characters.--The... Read Full Overview