Fade to Blonde

"She wore a pale blue dress with cream piping, a dark blue belt, and a silly little schoolgirlish collar. She had nice straight shoulders. There was nothing wrong between them and her open-toed shoes, so I guess the trouble must have been somewhere behind those blue-gray eyes. They'd be trouble, of course. She looked up and called, 'Is your name, Corson?' " From the first paragraph, Max Phillips's pitch-pure ear sets the tone; we have entered a back-alley world where men are tough and women are easy; where dirty secrets clog the citadels of power. With its staccato dialogue and its strip-club fusion of sex and vengeance, Fade to Blonde ironically recalls a more innocent age.

• Author
• Max Phillips

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 220

• Publisher
• Hard Case Crime

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780843953503

• Characters
• Ray Corso, Rebecca LaFontaine, Lenny Scarpa, Lance Halliday

• Settings
• United States of America

• Genres
• mystery, crime, fiction, noir, pulp, thriller, novels

• Release date
• 2004