Best Book of the Year
The Los Angeles Times - The Washington Post

Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, and celebrity scandals. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials. In A Bright and Guilty Place, 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 went noir.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 06/01/2010
ISBN: 9781400033584
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.62d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 07/09/2010 pg. 81
New York Times Book Review 08/29/2010 pg. 24