Death is a Lonely Business
Ray Douglas Bradbury
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic noir novels, available in ebook for the first time.Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort – until strange things begin happening around him.Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious ‘accidents’ – some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.
Death is a Lonely Business
Ray Bradbury
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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First published by Alfred A. Knopf 1985
First published in Great Britain by Grafton 1986
Copyright © Ray Bradbury 1985, 1999
First published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 2013
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Dedication (#ulink_3244ae01-4e51-5103-b514-23278db65681)
Wild love
to
Don Congdon,
who caused it to Happen.
And to the memory
of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett,
James M. Gain, and Ross Macdonald.
And to my fiends and teachers
Leigh Bracken and Edmond Hamilton,
sorely missed.
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