Mulholland Dive: Three Stories (12 page)
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
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Excerpt from
The Black Box
copyright © 2012 by Hieronymus, Inc.
Author photograph by Terrill Lee Lankford
Cover design by Allison Warner
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“Cahoots,” was originally published in
Measures of Poison,
edited by Dennis McMillan. “Mulholland Dive,” was originally published in
Los Angeles Noir,
edited by Denise Hamilton. It also appeared in
A Prisoner of Memory,
edited by Ed Gorman, and
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008,
edited by George Pelecanos and Otto Penzler. “Two-Bagger,” was originally published in
Murderers’ Row,
edited by Otto Penzler, and
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002,
edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler.
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ISBN 978-0-316-23367-5