by Joseph Wambaugh · Sphere · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780708823071
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«The Delta Star» is the crime novel by Joseph Wambaugh, published by Sphere in paperback (276 pages, in English).
The prostitute Missy Moonbeam falls from the roof of the Wonderland Hotel; her diary contains Caltech's phone number. Agents of the Rampart Division in Los Angeles follow a trail of corruption linking the world of prostitution with chemistry laboratories, leading to a murder.
The novel was originally published in 1983; this Sphere edition is from 1984. Joseph Wambaugh is also the author of «The New Centurion».
Recommended for readers of noir and crime fiction who appreciate humour within plots of corruption and crime.
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. was an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He won three Edgar Awards, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
