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The Dead Circus : A Novel by John Kaye, John Kaye is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Dead Circus : A Novel about?
Of John Kaye's first novel, Newsday wrote, “An utterly original L.A. novel . . . the fiction debut of the year." Now, with The Dead Circus , Kaye again shows us another side of Los Angeles—a city of rockers and private eyes, script girls and wiseguys, whose golden orbit is pierced by a streak of American evil named Manson. It's 1986. Gene Burk is an ex-cop, a fanatical record collector and private eye. Devastated by the death of his fiancée, a flight attendant, in a plane crash, Gene becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery from his days with the LAPD: the death of up-and-coming rockabilly star Bobby Fuller. As Gene attempts to reconstruct the circumstances that led to Fuller's demise, he is unexpectedly contacted by a woman from his fiancée's hometown, a survivor of the Manson Family who needs Gene's help to escape her past. Her last link to Manson is a startling body of evidence of the Family's evil and madness—evidence that several...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- John Kaye, John Kaye
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc. : Made available through hoopla
- Published
- 1976
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802140173
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Mystery, Fiction, Literary Fiction