P.G. Sturges, Scribner, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4391-9417-1
The son of legendary film director Preston Sturges takes an evocative Raymond Chandler spin through crime-haunted Los Angeles with his first novel, which introduces problem-solver Dick Henry. Henry, who rides around in his '69 Cadillac Coupe de...
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P.G. Sturges. Scribner, $24 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4391-9421-8
Likable L.A. lowlifes and conniving Hollywood has-beens populate Sturges’s entertaining sequel to 2011’s Shortcut Man. It’s all in a day’s work for vigilante-for-hire Dick Henry when he arranges for Harry Glidden, a judge turned TV personality, to...
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P.G. Sturges. Scribner, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4767-1297-0
At the outset of Sturges’s uneven third crime novel featuring L.A. fixer and ex-cop Dick Henry (after 2012’s The Tribulations of the Shortcut Man), Henry gets a disbarred attorney, who owes a client $3,300, to pay up by threatening to expose that he’
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