num_pages: 432
description: 1953 LA. Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer intends to ring in the New Year with old friend aspiring actress Liberty Callahan. Screenwriter Eleanor Lamb interrupts to hire Archer. After events escalatemysterious calls the same car outside her house and a bloody knife in her sinkEleanor fears for her life. First a dead body turns up inside of Eleanors home . . . and Eleanor herself disappears. To find both the murderer and Eleanor Archer enlists Callahan and his partner Willie Dash. The investigation takes him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to glamorous Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angelesa city where beautiful faces belong to cutthroat schemers cops can be more corrupt than criminals . . . and powerful people who took his client will kill Archer on their trail.
language: English
title: Dream Town
publisher: Grand Central Publishing