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Name: Blue City

Author: Ross Macdonald
Year: 1947
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Genres/categories: Mystery, Fiction, Noir, Crime, Hard boiled, Detective

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He was a son who hadn't known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murder--his father's murder. Johnny Weatherly was home from a war andwandering. When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father's seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on doors. Thedoors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a place in which his father had once moved freely. Now Johnny Weatherly was going to solve thismurder--by pitting his rage, his courage, and his lost illusions against the brutal underworld that has overtaken his hometown.
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