The Jack LeVine Trilogy: The Big Kiss-Off of 1944, Hollywood

The Jack LeVine Trilogy: The Big Kiss-Off of 1944, Hollywood and LeVine, and Tender Is LeVine (The Jack LeVine Mysteries)

Three devilishly witty and thrilling noir mysteries
Stocky, sweaty, and bald, LeVine is a Jewish private detective who makes a living by being polite. But underneath his smile lies a bulldog. In The Big Kiss-off of 1944, fledgling actress Kerry Lane comes to Jack LeVine when a blackmailer demands a payoff to keep a series of stag films from her past out of the public eye. Lured by long legs and a roll of crisp twenties, LeVine takes Kerryâ€™s case. But before he can speak to the blackmailer, the crook turns up dead. As LeVine hunts for Kerryâ€™s old films, he finds that the heart of this case is even uglier than greed, lust, or murder. Itâ€™s politics.
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In Hollywood and LeVine, screenwriter Walter Adrian seeks the advice of high school buddy Jack LeVine. Studio execs suspect that Adrian is a Communist, and theyâ€™re lowballing his salary as a result. Though he insists he isnâ€™t a Red, Adrian has no way of proving it. LeVine is broke, and has no sympathy for his wealthy friend, but he agrees to fly west to investigate his old classmateâ€™s trouble. When he arrives, Adrian hangs dead from the gallows at the Western set on the Warnersâ€™ backlot. Behind his friendâ€™s death, LeVine finds a shadowy Cold War conspiracy, and a city far darker than anything Hollywood puts on screen.
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In Tender Is LeVine, Jack LeVine is just emerging from a vicious funk after the 1948 death of his father. His first client is a German violinist, who visits LeVine out of concern for his maestro, Toscanini, the famous conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The maestroâ€™s memory is slipping, his conducting style has changed, and his eyesight is suddenly vastly improved. The violinist suspects that the conductor has disappeared and been replaced by a double. Itâ€™s an outlandish suspicion, but LeVine takes the case. After all, somebody has to pay for his new office. Soon enough, LeVine finds out that organized crime is playing the tune . . .
Country USA
Manufacturer MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-09-11
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-09-11
Format	Kindle eBook

The Jack LeVine Trilogy: The Big Kiss-Off of 1944, Hollywood and LeVine, and Tender Is LeVine (The Jack LeVine Mysteries)

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