num_pages: 220
description: "She wore a pale blue dress with cream piping, a dark blue belt, and a silly little schoolgirlish collar. She had nice straight shoulders. There was nothing wrong between them and her open-toed shoes, so I guess the trouble must have been somewhere behind those blue-gray eyes. They'd be trouble, of course. She looked up and called, 'Is your name, Corson?' " From the first paragraph, Max Phillips's pitch-pure ear sets the tone; we have entered a back-alley world where men are tough and women are easy; where dirty secrets clog the citadels of power. With its staccato dialogue and its strip-club fusion of sex and vengeance, Fade to Blonde ironically recalls a more innocent age.
language: English
title: Fade to Blonde
titlecomplete: Fade to Blonde
characters: Lenny Scarpa, Rebecca LaFontaine, Lance Halliday, Ray Corso
genres: Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery, Pulp, Fiction, Pulp Noir, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 1038
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Cover Art, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best PI Paperback Original
publisher: Hard Case Crime