The Black Marble By Joseph Wambaugh

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The black marble by joseph wambaugh.

The black marble revolves around a drunk detective valnikov his new partner s efforts to get him sacked and his investigation into a dognapping. In 2004 he was named grand master by the mystery writers of america. 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.

The marble has streaks of white that look like lightning bolts in a black sky. Every now and again i download one of his older books on kindle and the black marble is one of his best. Joseph wambaugh a former lapd detective sergeant is the bestselling author of seventeen prior works of fiction and nonfiction including the choirboys and the onion field. I find the antics of the latter two very funny.

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. This new global view of earth s city lights is a composite assembled from data acqu. 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. 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.

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. The black marble by wambaugh joseph and a great selection of similar new used and collectible books available now at great prices 5 k. He lives in southern california. 1937 began his writing career while a member of the los angeles police department.

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. The son of a policeman joseph wambaugh b. It is based on the 1978 novel by joseph wambaugh. The central characters are two police officers a woman who owns a champion dog and a guy who runs a kennel.

Wambaugh wrote true for the time with plenty of true to life laughs.