A Bad Light for Dying
Every face has an hour. Someone is collecting them Los Angeles, October 1958. Walter Kessel, fifty-one, ex-Army photographer and a private detective who drinks less than he used to, is hired by a Valley mother whose daughter walked into a Hollywood portrait studio in May and never walked out. By the time Kessel gets there, the photographer is dead on his darkroom floor. In the filing cabinet he finds the contact sheets: young women, one after another, shot in the flat grey half hour before dusk that the trade calls the bad hour. Every one of them has since disappeared. Someone in this town files faces, and Kessel is running...Copper Seal · Certificate Nº 0029-9AIBOOKS · booksai.store
A Bad Light for Dying
by Carter Luense
Every face has an hour. Someone is collecting them
Every face has an hour. Someone is collecting them
Los Angeles, October 1958. Walter Kessel, fifty-one, ex-Army photographer and a private detective who drinks less than he used to, is hired by a Valley mother whose daughter walked into a Hollywood portrait studio in May and never walked out. By the time Kessel gets there, the photographer is dead on his darkroom floor. In the filing cabinet he finds the contact sheets: young women, one after another, shot in the flat grey half hour before dusk that the trade calls the bad hour. Every one of them has since disappeared. Someone in this town files faces, and Kessel is running out of daylight.
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