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Original Title:	Death is a Lonely Business
ISBN:	0380789655 (ISBN13: 9780380789658)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Crumley Mysteries #1
Characters:	Elmo Crumley, Constance Rattigan
Setting:	California(United States) Venice, California(United States)

Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries #1)

Ray Bradbury

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 4295 Users | 303 Reviews

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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.

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.

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Title	:	Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries #1)
Author	:	Ray Bradbury
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1999 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction

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I've read this book twice. It is written in a noire style, but with a feel of the fantastical running through it. The main character is a struggling writer (Bradbury himself) who is trying keep his art flowing but is lonely. His girlfriend is an ocean away and he seems so detached from everyone around him. But then a murder mystery unfolds and the writer must solve it. As the novel moves forward you find that Bradbury has many friends, some existing, some new, the relationships brought about

The type of book only Ray Bradbury could've come up with. A bit of a noir murder-mystery.. With supernatural undercurrents, some Bradbury weirdness (and brilliant writing), actually it reminded me a bit of Big Lebowski, and the setting of 1940's California kinda made me think it was a little nod to his early struggling pulp writer days, cos that's what the narrator is. A brilliant, neglected novel.

This novel is quite unlike most of Bradbury's usual fare. In it, he delves into the realm of the noir mystery novel. It is set in 1949 and takes place in Venice, California where the narrator is a young writer (Bradbury himself) who gets involved in a series of possible murders of some of the less fortunate residents of the decaying city of Venice. The story starts out with the narrator riding an old street car when a mysterious person behind him whispers "Death is a lonely business." Before the

Bradbury is a science fiction author, and an exceptional one at that. Later in life though, he dabbled in mystery fiction, his homage the noir authors he admired. Death is a Lonely Business is one of those works, perhaps, I believe, the first.On the good side, Bradburys talent for storytelling, and his willingness to push the envelope are very visible here. The cast of characters is unforgettable, the WTF twists in the story are a delight, and his inventive multilayered craftsmanship (a

What a sweet, nostalgic, eccentric read this was. The more Bradbury I read, the more I love him. First and foremost, his sense of humor is so unique and divine, and second, there is no other author in that genre who writes women the way Bradbury does. God, how I love Constance Rattigan in this book. Bradbury always has a very strong female character in his stories and the girls stand on their own as full fledged people. The narrator in this particular story is basically a dream to read: he's

Bradbury always automatically gets 4 stars. This book gets an extra star for being a mystery. And for unique characterization.

I had to reread Fahrenheit 451 to help my granddaughter write a paper, and I enjoyed it again; so I decided to try this newer Bradbury. Knowing that science fiction, horror, and supernatural are my very least favorite literature genres, I still gave it a shot. I gave up on it after about 4 chapters. All fluff - no substance. There seemed to be no plotline - just a lot of well-written scary language. I couldn't help comparing it to a sermon I heard the day before I tried reading the book. The