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Death Is a Lonely Business is a mystery novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1985. The story, set in 1949, is about a series of murders that happen in Venice, California, then a declining seaside community in Los Angeles where Bradbury lived from 1942 to 1950.
- Ray Bradbury
- 1985
Jan 1, 2001 · Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s.
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Based on his time living in Venice, California between 1942 and 1950, American author Ray Bradbury’s mystery novel Death is a Lonely Business (1985) concerns a string of murders in the small seaside town.
Nov 17, 1985 · By Paul Barber. Nov. 17, 1985 12 AM PT. Off in the Virgo Cluster, and only a million light years from Andromeda, on a small planet encircling a small star, and at a particular (and possibly unique)...
Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem...
- Ray Bradbury
- Harper Collins, 1999
- illustrated, reprint
- Death Is a Lonely Business
reviews. Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s.
Death is a Lonely Business. Ray Bradbury. Bantam Books, 1992 - Fiction - 277 pages. Bradbury turns hardboiled with this rich, beautifully written homage to the detective novel of the Thirties...
