The Black Marble By Joseph Wambaugh

The black marble that s what losers like val and philo always wind up with should hive been better than it is.

The black marble by joseph wambaugh.

1937 began his writing career while a member of the los angeles police department. The characters are so deep and true the humour is totally human the situations are tense desperate and awful but that sick sense of humour of wambaugh s works so well. It is based on the 1978 novel by joseph wambaugh. He lives in southern california.

It is a near perfect crime novel. Every now and again i download one of his older books on kindle and the black marble is one of his best. This is only the second book i have read by this author as i always assumed his books would be quite gory not sure where i got that idea from but in actual fact they are laugh out loud funny. Wambaugh wrote true for the time with plenty of true to life laughs.

The son of a policeman joseph wambaugh b. The central characters are two police officers a woman who owns a champion dog and a guy who runs a kennel. The police station running gags are too running to be real the black comic touches like a pet funeral prove again that wambaugh ain t waugh and andrushka and natasha deserve better than a pure musical comedy ending. Free shipping for many products.

The black marble revolves around a drunk detective valnikov his new partner s efforts to get him sacked and his investigation into a dognapping. Leisure suit junkies and old pasadena run amuck in this fun romp as a would be master mind picks the black marble again and again. This new global view of earth s city lights is a composite assembled from data acqu. I find the antics of the latter two very funny.

The black marble is a 1980 mystery romantic comedy film directed by harold becker and starring robert foxworth paula prentiss and harry dean stanton. The black marble 1978 is i think joseph wambaugh s triumph. He joined the lapd in 1960 after three years in the marine corps and rose to the rank of detective sergeant before retiring in 1974. The marble has streaks of white that look like lightning bolts in a black sky.

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