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In 1926 Los Angeles a friend of young band-leader Tom Hickey is found lynched in Echo Park. But police and media decline to acknowledge the murder. Nobody except Tom appears willing to hunt for the killers.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; ">span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">strong>THE BIGGEST LIAR IN LOS ANGELES, /strong>Los Angeles, 1926/span>
p align="left" class="style41" style="font-size: 13px; ">The modern world began in 1926, when Harry Chandler used the persuasive reach of his em>Los Angeles Times/em> to assure that railroads were out, and cars were in. Since then, Hollywood films have delivered Los Angeles as a prototype for most of world's cities.br />
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Clifford Hickey is a folk musician looking for the big break that will save him from his back-up plan, USC law school. But when he arrives in Evergreen for a folk festival and discovers his brother Alvaro is the prime suspect in a murder, his plans change.
THE DO-RE-MI, a small town Northern California folk festival, 1972
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div>Evergreen is a different town than the last time Clifford Hickey visited, only a year ago. Then it was an Eden, a garden of peace and delights, of music and lovely hippies sharing all they had. Now it's the site of a range war. Bikers have descended upon the place to poach from the hippies' marijuana plantations. And a home grown boy gets murdered the very night Clifford arrives./div>
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div>Clifford, a recent college graduate, and his brother Alvaro are scheduled to perf | |  | | The Good Know Nothing
(L.A., Tucson, and McCloud, CA. 1936) A famous novelist, an outlaw who may be the Sundance Kid, and publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst stand between Tom and the truth about the disappearance of his father. Los Angeles Book Festival Best Mystery Award.
span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;">During the summer of 1936, destitute farmers from the Dust Bowl swarm into California, and an old friend brings L.A. police detective Tom Hickey a book manuscript, a clue to the mystery of his father Charlie’s long-ago disappearance. Tom chooses to risk losing his job and family to follow the lead, though even his oldest friend and mentor, fellow detective Leo Weiss, passionately opposes Tom’s decision./span>
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Set in 1943, The Loud Adios was the first book in what has become the Tom Hickey's California series of private investigator novels.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Private Investigator Tom Hickey, now an army corporal military policeman assigned to the U.S./Mexico border, accompanies Private Clifford Rose to a Tijuana nightclub where Clifford claims they will find his sister Wendy./span>
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A Holy Virgin who appears in Mexico is dedicated to the overthrow of the corrupt and tyrannical PRI. And a woman who claims to be the Virgin’s sister brings San Diego private investigator Alvaro Hickey a chance to help reform the country of his birth.
THE VAGABOND VIRGINS, Baja California, 1979.
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div>A Holy Virgin, or a convincing fraud, who appears in Mexico is dedicated to the overthrow of the corrupt and tyrannical Partido Revolucionario Institutional. And a woman who claims to be the Virgin’s sister brings San Diego law student and private investigator Alvaro Hickey a chance to help reform the country of his birth. /div>
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div>Alvaro's got personal reasons for helping exquisite, cultured, and other-worldly Lourdes Shuler find her "sister." And his motives for help |
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