Alice in La La Land

by Robert Wright Campbell

Book Overview

Whistler was not usually a bodyguard, but Nell Twelvetrees had a body worth protecting. And her husband, a famous talk-show host, hid a psychopathic sadism beneath his smiling face. Mr. Campbell confirms that he is a master of the hard-boiled Chandleresque manner.--New York Times.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671669311
• ISBN13: 9780671669317
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Hard to put down with a Chaplin "Modern Times" ending

If you have seen Modern Times you know in the end you highly doubt that beautiful hope they have is going to play out but you still hope. Whistler, the main character, would understand that statement.It is not a novel for the faint hearted. Campbell explores a world of sex, murder, pleasure and pain. A world of hooker of all sexes and none, TV, Transsexuals, Gender Benders, runaways, throwaways and the atmosphere around them. Set in this is a beautiful woman who isn't what she seems, a star who is what he seems, a daughter who plunged thru the looking glass from Alanta to La-La land. It takes a while but you'll figure out who the Red Queen is, who Alice actually is, who Chessie is, the rabbit and the rest. Hardbitten, hard boiled and with that hope no matter how lost it is at the end. Not for the faint hearted, not for those who like pink colored glasses. A passing knowledge of Thru the looking glass and Alice in wonderland helps.

Dark P.I. Fiction

Had Phillip Marlowe been working his L.A. beat in the 1980s, he might have been a bit like Robert Cambell's Private Investigator Whistler. Whistler works the underbelly of the city in much the same way Marlowe did. But L.A. has become even more corrupt and morally bankrupt than in Marlowe's day. The sort of human predators that Whistler runs up against are a product of our modern media age. "Alice in La-La Land" is a solid entry in the Whistler series and a good read for anyone who likes detective fiction.