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Title details for The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles by Ken Kuhlken - Available

The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles

#6 in series

by Ken Kuhlken
Ray Porter
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In 1926, musician Tom Hickey reads in a broadside about a lynching that the Los Angeles newspapers failed to report and discovers that the Negro victim was an old friend. When his neighbor, an LAPD detective, confirms that, officially, the lynching didn't occur, Hickey decides to investigate the murder, earning himself beatings, gunfire meant to dissuade him, and warnings from a Klansman that he's made some formidable enemies. Among them may be infamous Police Chief Two Gun Davis, Examiner publisher and political heavyweight William Randolph Hearst, and Harry Chandler, owner of the Times, who owns more land than any man in the world.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Hickey Family Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 1, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481569668
      • File size: 223765 KB
      • Duration: 07:46:10

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 3, 2010
      James Ellroy fans will welcome Kuhlken's intriguing sixth California Century mystery (after 2008's "The Vagabond Virgins"). Set in 1926 and the first in the series chronologically, this entry focuses on the early career of PI Tom Hickey. Outraged to learn that a black friend has been lynched in L.A.'s Echo Park, news that the mainstream media has suppressed, Hickey risks his day job as a meat salesman to look into the killing. Hickey explores possible links to crooked cops, the Ku Klux Klan, city hall, newspaper moguls William Randolph Hearst and Harry Chandler, and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who recently resurfaced after a mysterious five-month disappearance. Kuhlken mixes historical and fictional characters with an ease that will remind many of Max Allan Collins's Nate Heller series ("True Crime", etc.). He's equally adept at melding the murder inquiry with Hickey's struggles with his dysfunctional family. "(May)" .

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 22, 2010
      James Ellroy fans will welcome Kuhlken's intriguing sixth California Century mystery (after 2008's The Vagabond Virgins
      ). Set in 1926 and the first in the series chronologically, this entry focuses on the early career of PI Tom Hickey. Outraged to learn that a black friend has been lynched in L.A.'s Echo Park, news that the mainstream media has suppressed, Hickey risks his day job as a meat salesman to look into the killing. Hickey explores possible links to crooked cops, the Ku Klux Klan, city hall, newspaper moguls William Randolph Hearst and Harry Chandler, and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who recently resurfaced after a mysterious five-month disappearance. Kuhlken mixes historical and fictional characters with an ease that will remind many of Max Allan Collins's Nate Heller series (True Crime
      , etc.). He's equally adept at melding the murder inquiry with Hickey's struggles with his dysfunctional family.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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