"A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age" by Richard Rayner
"A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age" by Richard Rayner
Doubleday | 2009 | ISBN: 0385509707 9780385509701 | 305 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Doubleday | 2009 | ISBN: 0385509707 9780385509701 | 305 pages | PDF | 7 MB
A captivating chronicle of how the City of Angels lost its soul.
Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, celebrity scandals, and religious fervor. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials.
Table of Contents
Cast of Characters
1. The Mystery Is Announced
2. Dam Disaster
3. A Hero Named Clark
4. Angel City
5. The Gangster Goes Down
6. Oil, Law, and Scandal
7. Oup Detective Learns the Ropes
8. Shots in the Night
9. Beverly Hills C.S.I
10. Covep-Up
11. Good Time Charlie
12. Systems Under Siege
13. Reach for a Typewriter
14. Raymond Chandler - Oil Man!
15. Entrapment of a News Hound
16. Running with the Foxes
17. Zig-Zags of Graft
18. Red Hot Bow
19. The Gutting of Clara
20. Hard Times in Lotus-Land
21. Double Death on Sunset
22. The Ballad of Dave Clark
23. They Can Hang You
24. Telling It All
25. Verdicts
26. A Hooker's Tale
27. Music of the City
28. Black Mask Merry-Go-Round
29. Sad Song
30. Lives Go On
31. A Personal Note
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Sources
Bibliography
Index
with TOC BookMarkLinks