[nice tight copy, faint soiling to top/bottom page edges, slight fading to boards along bottom edge; jacket has a couple of laminate wrinkles near bottom of front panel, otherwise bright and clean]. INSCRIBED humorously ("To / ___ / Get off / crack!") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "Los Angeles, 1950. Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Movieland leftists on a collision course with a grand jury investigating team. A young homicide detective obsessed with capturing a murderer of unparalleled viciousness -- even though the price may be horrific self-revelation. Gangsters and cops and fixers and Hollywood grotesques in a noir novel of epic scope and depth." Signed by Author

Los Angeles Fifties Anti-communism Hollywood Murder Political Corruption Signed