![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s fictional protagonist, Gil “Hop” Hopkins, is the man who made sure it did. It will work best this way while mother is away,ĭespite media coverage and a gossip columnist’s offer of a cash reward, Jean Spangler’s trail quickly went cold. Kirk, Can’t wait any longer, Going to see Dr. In October 1949, a dancer and background actress named Jean Spangler vanished, seemingly into thin air. The only clue was her purse, found in a Los Angeles park, which contained an unfinished note: ![]() When he described her early books as “pitch-perfect evocations of classic period noir, set midcentury, but each with an ingenious contemporary twist,” I knew I had to give one a try.*Ībbott’s third novel, The Song is You, takes a real-life crime as its inspiration. A few weeks ago, writer Adam Sternbergh wrote a rapturous review of Megan Abbott’s The Fever - really, a rapturous review of Megan Abbott’s work in general. ![]()
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