Don Winslow's WHILE DROWNING IN THE DESERT, the last (I
think) in his Neal Carey series, takes place in Nevada, most
prominently in Las Vegas. Neal is sent, by a group that takes
care of rich people's problems, to return an over-the-hill
and perhaps senile comedian who taught Lou Costello
everything he knows (or so he says) from the Mirage to Palm
Springs. Turns out the old guy had lots of good reasons for
leaving home.
This is the lightest book in the
series, verging on fluffy at times, what with all the former
burlesque star's stage jokes and stories about the good old
days. But I could make a case for its being hardboiled if I
had to, there's a jolt of noir at the end, and it's stuffed
with Las Vegas, past and present. Joy
Victoria Two wrote:
> Las Vegas has two main TV shows, but is begging for
some mystery books
> and plenty of material is available with a history
of outrageous
> characters. The architecture is wonderful, something
stolen from
> everywhere and overdone. You may want to walk into
the Luxor Pyramid just
> to see totally too much.
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