Even in the thicket of his strange exotic garden, Elmo Crumley supplies the anchor that reminds us where the shoreline of fantasy stops.But this novel is first of all a valentine to the movies and especially to the people whose vision and skills transform experience through their craft. There is a mystery element to this story, all right, and Detective Lieutenant Crumley puts in an encore appearance, although again his role is more about moral support and reality check than it is about crime-solving prowess. But Crumley's presence is secondary at most. Having just finished Bradbury's Death Is a Lonely Business as 2017 came to an end, I went straight on to its sequel, A Graveyard for Lunatics, to begin the new year.In a feat of love as much as verbal skill, Bradbury achieves cinematic magic on the unadorned page-much as his unnamed main character does as a Hollywood screenwriter.LibraryThing lists this novel as book 2 in the "Crumley Mysteries" series, and I suppose you could call it that.
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