Dream town
(Book)

It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events -- mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink -- Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Before Archer can officially take on her case, a dead body turns up inside of Eleanor’s home and Eleanor herself disappears. With the help of Callahan and his partner Willie Dash, he launches an investigation that will take him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to the glamorous world of Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angeles.