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    Angels Flight: A Noir Short Story
    Angels Flight: A Noir Short Story
    Angels Flight: A Noir Short Story
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    Angels Flight: A Noir Short Story

    By Paul D. Marks

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    From the Award-Winning author of the noir thriller WHITE HEAT - 2013 SHAMUS NOMINEE (Private Eye Writers of America). Other nominees in various categories include Robert Crais, Jeffrey Deaver, Ace Atkins, Hank Phillippi Ryan, to name a few.

    PUBLISHERS WEEKLY says: WHITE HEAT is a "...taut crime yarn set in 1992 against the turmoil of the Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of the police officers charged with assaulting motorist Rodney King.... the author ably evokes the chaos that erupted after the Rodney King verdict."

    “Will Angels Flight bring back the glamour of the old days? Hollywood’s lost its tinsel. Venice’s lost its pier. And there are no angels in the City of Angels. What can Angels Flight do to bring that back?”
    “Sometimes you need something for the soul.”

    Tom Holland, dinosaur LAPD cop, is saddled with Lucy Railsback, a representative from the mayor's Community Police Action Committee.

    Lucy never expected to meet a dead body her first day out.

    And when an unidentified body is found in Echo Park Lake, Holland and Lucy have very different ideas about how to solve the case...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul D. Marks
    Release dateAug 31, 2013
    ISBN9780985076085
    Angels Flight: A Noir Short Story
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    Paul D. Marks

    Paul D. Marks is the author of the Shamus Award-Winning mystery-thriller White Heat. Publishers Weekly calls White Heat a “taut crime yarn.” And Midwest Book Review says “White Heat is a riveting read of mystery, much recommended.” His story Howling at the Moon is short-listed for both this year’s (2015) Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best Short Story. It was published in the November 2014 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and came in #7 in their Reader’s Poll Award. His story Fade Out appears in the August 17, 2015 Akashic’s Mondays Are Murder. He is the co-editor of the anthology Coast to Coast: Murder from Sea to Shining Sea, coming in October, 2015 from Down & Out Books. His novella Vortex is available for pre-order now and will be released on September 1, 2015.Paul is the author of over thirty published short stories in a variety of genres, including several award winners. Five of his stories can be found in the collection LA Late @ Night. He also has the distinction, dubious though it might be, of being the last person to have shot a film on the fabled MGM backlot before it bit the dust to make way for condos. According to Steven Bingen, co-author of the well-received book MGM: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot: “That 40 page chronological list I mentioned of films shot at the studio ends with his [Paul D. Marks’] name on it.”

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      Angels Flight - Paul D. Marks

      ANGELS FLIGHT

      A Noir Short Story

      by

      Paul D. Marks

      Published by Timeless Skies Publishing

      ANGELS FLIGHT

      A Noir Short Story

      Copyright © 2013, 1997 by Paul D. Marks

      ISBN-10: 0985076089

      ISBN-13: 978-0-9850760-8-5

      EPUB Edition

      Published by Timeless Skies Publishing at Smashwords

      Originally published by Crown Valley Press in the Anthology Murder by Thirteen

      Visit: www.PaulDMarks.com

      Book and cover design by Timeless Skies Publishing.

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner of this book except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return it and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      Timeless Skies Publishing

      Praise for Paul’s novel White Heat:

      WHITE HEAT is nominated for a 2013 SHAMUS AWARD by the Private Eye Writers of America.

      "...taut crime yarn set in 1992 against the turmoil of the

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