PI novel set in Manhattan during the 1980s when art galleries and model agencies were the two most glamorous businesses in the world. Dangerously well written.
Read Chapter 1 here: https://www.lit4u.com/art-and-beauty-chapter-1/
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Author of hardboiled Neil Brand crime series (Ice Cream Blonde and Naked Nymph in the Dark Flickers).
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Ray Dyson first took up eating in Evansville, IN, just long enough ago that, not only is the house he was born in no longer there, neither is the street. He attended The Ohio State University School of Journalism and spent several years as a newspaperman, covering crime and sports. He is a former sports editor and sports columnist. He has a particular interest in American history (especially the Civil War), the American West, and the American cinema.
Dyson is the author of four books: a baseball story, Smokey Joe, a Western novel, Bannon: The Scavenger Breed, and two hardboiled Neil Brand crime stories set in 1930s Hollywood, The Ice Cream Blonde and The Naked Nymph in the Dark Flickers.
Birth Place
Evansville, IN United States
Accomplishments
Winner of numerous awards for newspaper reporting in both the crime beat and the sports beat.
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616 Cline Ave. 115
Mansfield OH 44907
United States
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