Leaving Hollywood the Hard Way: A Chris Nichols Mystery

By Elliott Leach

A cold night and a hot tip find Chris Nichols, Private Eye and major irritant to the Los Angeles Police Department, on duty in one of the city's seamier sections. On a lead he catches a couple 'morally confused' John Does delivering someone else's cargo to the wrong warehouse at two in the morning. Taking his photos, he heads back to the car when he catches something else - a couple ounces of lead.Chris wakes up in the hospital to find the police want to talk to him and his fiancee doesn't. She's got a society name, wealth and connections, everything Chris has been working for. And she wants him. But in a new line of work. Now he needs to give the police and his girl answers which he doesn't have.Set in 1951, Leaving Hollywood the Hard Way follows the hard-boiled detective genre introduced by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. It echos the style of the Phillip Marlowe series with occasional splashes of the sardonic humor that made the Thin Man so popular.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1490983775
• ISBN13: 9781490983776
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"