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Overview
"Peekaboo" Frankie Fagen is a long-haired, leather-jacketed private detective, best known for his unconventional methods and the Norton Commando he rides through his beloved San Francisco. When summoned to a box at the opera, he meets the beautiful Colleen Farragut, due to go on trial the next day for the murder of her husband, the city's richest and most powerful real estate developer and a lifelong Fagen nemesis. A million-dollar bonus is Frankie's if he finds the burglars Colleen claims were the actual killers - but the real prize would be a century's worth of Farragut diaries that document a family tradition of criminal activity and corruption. With evidence and public sentiment stacked against his client, Frankie, motivated by both love and revenge, races against the clock to find the killer and save Colleen.
"Epic....Dalessandro writes like a reincarnated Dashiell Hammetf... more than a mystery, a riff into a storybook city's heart of darkness...hands down the most colorful San Francisco character since Dirty Harry...." Marvin Wolf, Los Angeles Daily News.
"Energetic prose and stylish inventions..." San Francisco Chronicle
"A great read, very smart, almost too smart." - Barry Gifford, author of "The Adventures of Sailor and Luna" (Wild at Heart)
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"Epic....Dalessandro writes like a reincarnated Dashiell Hammetf... more than a mystery, a riff into a storybook city's heart of darkness...hands down the most colorful San Francisco character since Dirty Harry...." Marvin Wolf, Los Angeles Daily News.
"Energetic prose and stylish inventions..." San Francisco Chronicle
"A great read, very smart, almost too smart." - Barry Gifford, author of "The Adventures of Sailor and Luna" (Wild at Heart)
Find more books by James Dalessandro for your eBook reader from Crossroad Press, as well as titles by other best-selling mystery and thriller authors such as Bill Pronzini, Bill Crider, John Lutz, Tom Piccirrilli, David Niall Wilson and more. Crossroad Press provides a wide variety of fiction and non fiction, including the original series properties Tales of the Scattered Earth, O.C.L.T. and the DeChance Chronicles. Discover some of the greats of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and just great books, including Irving Wallace, Al Sarrantonio, Charles L. Grant, Steven Savile, Chet Williamson, and more. Simply search Crossroad Press at the eBook vendor of your choice.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940016107851 |
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| Publisher: | Crossroad Press |
| Publication date: | 12/18/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 668 KB |
About the Author
James Dalessandro was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the Ohio University School of Journalism and UCLA Film School. In 1973, he founded the Santa Cruz Poetry Festival with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Ken Kesey, which became the nation’s largest literary event during its four year run. Lawrence Ferlinghetti credited him with launching “a new birth of American poetry” and called him “one of the new breed of young, populist writers who has something to say, quite clearly, about life on the wild side.” He has published four books: Canary in a Coal Mine (1973, poetry, Sanguine Books); Bohemian Heart (1993, noir thriller, St. Martin’s Press), Citizen Jane (1998, true crime, Putnam Penguin); and the best-selling 1906 (2004, historical thriller, Chronicle Books).
He has been a member of the Writers Guild of America, west, since 1983, and has sold or been hired on more than 20 feature film and television projects. In September, 2009, Hallmark Channel broadcast the original movie “Citizen Jane” – their only true life/true crime story – for he was both screenwriter and producer. He also the screenwriter of the upcoming Pixar/Warner Brothers live action film “1906”, based on his novel and screenplay. He was the writer of the nationally syndicated radio program, “The Houe of Blues Radio Hour” with Dan Aykroyd” and “Rock On” with Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek.
He is the award winning writer/director/producer of the documentary Film “The Damnedest, Finest Ruins” (KQED-PBS, 2011). He has written for The Examiner newspapers and published feature articles in San Francisco Magazine and Playboy.
As of December, 2012, “Telegraph Hill”, a television series based on Bohemian Heart is in development with James as a writer/executive producer, and with Oscar winning screenwriter Bobby Moresco (CRASH, MILLION DOLLAR BABY) for Entertainment One Television.
He teaches Advanced Screenwriting and Television Writing at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Katie and best pal Giaccomo Poochini.
He has been a member of the Writers Guild of America, west, since 1983, and has sold or been hired on more than 20 feature film and television projects. In September, 2009, Hallmark Channel broadcast the original movie “Citizen Jane” – their only true life/true crime story – for he was both screenwriter and producer. He also the screenwriter of the upcoming Pixar/Warner Brothers live action film “1906”, based on his novel and screenplay. He was the writer of the nationally syndicated radio program, “The Houe of Blues Radio Hour” with Dan Aykroyd” and “Rock On” with Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek.
He is the award winning writer/director/producer of the documentary Film “The Damnedest, Finest Ruins” (KQED-PBS, 2011). He has written for The Examiner newspapers and published feature articles in San Francisco Magazine and Playboy.
As of December, 2012, “Telegraph Hill”, a television series based on Bohemian Heart is in development with James as a writer/executive producer, and with Oscar winning screenwriter Bobby Moresco (CRASH, MILLION DOLLAR BABY) for Entertainment One Television.
He teaches Advanced Screenwriting and Television Writing at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Katie and best pal Giaccomo Poochini.
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