Mystery Girl: A Novel

by David Gordon
 SUMMARY
 When Sam Kornberg’s wife, Lala, walks out on him, he’s an 
unemployed used-book store clerk and failed experimental
 novelist with a broken heart. Desperate to win her back, he
 takes a job as assistant detective to the enigmatic Solar Lonsky, 
a private eye who might be an eccentric and morbid genius or
 just a morbidly obese madman.
It’s a simple tail job, following a beautiful and mysterious lady 
around L.A., but Sam soon finds himself helplessly falling for his
 quarry and hopelessly entangled in a murder case involving Satanists,
 succubi, underground filmmakers, Hollywood bigshots, Mexican 
shootouts, video-store geekery, and sexy doppelgangers from 
beyond the grave. A case that highlights the risks of hardcore 
reading and mourns the death of the novel—or perhaps just the
 decline of Western Civilization.

Mystery Girl is a thriller about the dangers of marriage and a detective 
story about the unsolvable mysteries of love, art, and other people

Hardcover, 320 pages

Published July 16th 2013

 by New Harvest

  (first published June 5th 2013)

ISBN

0544028589 (ISBN13: 9780544028586)

edition language

English

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