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Featured in Paperbacks From Hell! He said “Hjortsberg’s book offered hardboiled detective fiction mixed with demonic identity theft!”
Cover art: Mark & Stefani Gerber
Blurb: “"BRILLIANTLY NIGHTMARISH...
SPELLBINDING... DIABOLICAL... A COMPELLING, PAGE-TURNING STORY*
-WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Johnny Favorite was America's biggest star, a velvet-toned crooner with a sensational talent-and a reputation for pure evil. Now crack private eye
Harry Angel roves New York's neon streets and smoke-fogged jazz joints trying to find him-and is himself drawn into a nightmarish shadowland of grisly voodoo rituals and foul black magic, where witnesses end up as corpses and every clue dissolves in blood.
From the elegant Upper West Side haunt of a witchy heiress, to a desolate Coney Island carnival of sinister freaks, down to the subterranean rites of a murderous coven, Angel will gamble everything to outwit a demonic adversary-and risk paying a horrifying price... FALLING ANGEL
"Terrifying... one gets downright riveted... the pace is fast, the violence brutal and the mystery of Favorite's disappearance increasingly perplexing... first-rate."
-CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, NEW YORK TIMES. AN EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE”