A bright and guilty place
Subtitle: murder, corruption, and L.A.'s scandalous coming of age
By: Richard Rayner
Edition: 1st Anchor Books edition
Publisher: Anchor Book
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781400033584
Description: Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, celebrity scandals, and religious fervor. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor and a DA in the pocket of the syndicates. Here, historian Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times shaded into the Depression, the adventures of Clark and White would inspire pulp fiction and replace L.A.'s reckless optimism with a new cynicism. Together, theirs is the tale of how the city of sunshine got noir. --From publisher description.
Notes: "With a new afterword." -- Cover

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-259) and index.