Red Sockets: A 1950's Los Angeles Mystery - Sam Seegmiller

Descriere Red Sockets: A 1950's Los Angeles Mystery - Sam Seegmiller

Kraus could feel the blood drain from his face. Only his police training \nand combat experience kept him from throwing up. He looked at the covered body, \nthen back at Laveroni. Go ahead, Laveroni said. We've been here since four-thirty. Got all the preliminaries. Los Angeles - 1956 Former LAPD policeman, Gordon Gordy Kraus, has been a private detective since \ncoming home to Los Angeles after a tough war. After years of patrolling the streets of Los Angeles, \nthen two years as a military policeman in the grimness of post-war Berlin, he swore never \nto involve himself in another homicide investigation. A corpse turning up in an East L.A. alleyway forces Kraus to break his oath. The LAPD \nisn't interested in investigating the murder. Kraus has a personal connection to the victim. \nHe enlists the aid of a cagey female con artist he'd been pursuing and together they begin their \nhunt for the killer. Their search leads them to illegal gambling dens, ruthless mobsters, seedy pool halls, desperate \nblackmail targets and a mysterious Los Felix mansion. Every new discovery seems to point to a \nnew type of company: an electronics distributor. Transistors. Diodes. Potentiometers. Capacitors. Resistors. Building blocks for an emerging, \ntransistorized world. Quick deliveries. Quicker money. Loads of it. But money can never come quickly \nenough or in great enough amounts for some people. Could the birth of a new industry have led to the death of an ex-cop? Greed and murder are as old as prehistoric cave paintings. Kraus learns they're no less deadly \nin a world of modern technology. \nKraus could feel the blood drain from his face. Only his police training \nand combat experience kept him from throwing up. He looked at the covered body, \nthen back at Laveroni. Go ahead, Laveroni said. We've been here since four-thirty. Got all the preliminaries. Los Angeles - 1956 Former LAPD policeman, Gordon Gordy Kraus, has been a private detective since \ncoming home to Los Angeles after a tough war. After years of patrolling the streets of Los Angeles, \nthen two years as a military policeman in the grimness of post-war Berlin, he swore never \nto involve himself in another homicide investigation. A corpse turning up in an East L.A. alleyway forces Kraus to break his oath. The LAPD \nisn't interested in investigating the murder. Kraus has a personal connection to the victim. \nHe enlists the aid of a cagey female con artist he'

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