TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baldacci,David
TI  - Dream town
T2  - Aloysius Archer
SN  - 9781444849318
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Leicester
PB  - Ulverscroft, Charnwood
KW  - Archer, Aloysius (Fictitious character)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Private investigators
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Screenwriters
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Actors and actresses
KW  - Ex-convicts
KW  - Los Angeles (Calif.)
KW  - Las Vegas (Nev.)
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - Large type books
N1  - Adult
N2  - Los Angeles, 1952. It is New Year's Eve, and PI Aloysius Archer is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood actress Liberty Callahan when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter looking to hire him, as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to her Malibu residence leaves Archer knocked unconscious after he stumbles over a dead body in the hallway. Meanwhile, Lamb seems to have vanished. With the police now involved in the case, a close friend and colleague of hers employs Archer to find out what's happened. Archer's investigation takes him from the rich, glamorous and glitzy LA to the seedy, dark side of the city, and onward to the gambling mecca of Las Vegas. In a place where cops and crooks work hand in hand, Archer will cross paths with Hollywood stars, politicians, criminals - and Death
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