Edgar Award Finalist: The hunt for a vanished singer leads a detective into the depths of the occult in this “terrific” novel (Stephen King).  Big-band frontman Johnny Favorite was singing for the troops when a Luftwaffe fighter squadron strafed the bandstand, killing the crowd and leaving the singer near death. The army returned him to a private hospital in upstate New York, leaving him to live out his days as a vegetable while the world forgot him. But Louis Cyphre never forgets. Cyphre had a contract with the singer, stipulating payment upon Johnny’s death—payment that will be denied as long as Johnny clings to life. When Cyphre hires private investigator Harry Angel to find Johnny at the hospital, Angel learns that the singer has disappeared. It is no ordinary missing-person’s case. Everyone he questions dies soon after, as Angel’s investigation ensnares him in a bizarre tangle of black magic, carnival freaks, and grisly voodoo. When the sinister Louis Cyphre begins appearing in Angel’s dreams, the detective fears for his life, his sanity, and his soul.Falling Angel was the basis for the Alan Parker film Angel Heart, starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet.  This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Hjortsberg including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Falling Angel

Literature & Fiction

HJORTSBERG, William

Genre Fiction

Arrow Books, Ltd.

Filmed as Angel Heart, by Alan Parker, a crime novel in which a New York detective becomes embroiled in a nightmare of voodoo and black magic when a missing-persons case he accepts develops into a mysterious murder investigation.

Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

Nevermore

While a killer recreates grisly scenes from the pages of Edgar Allen Poe in 1920s New York, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is haunted by Poe's ghost, and Harry Houdini falls in love with a beautiful clairvoyant

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

St Martins Pr

Toro!toro!toro!

Ballantine Books

New York private eye Harry Angel takes on a routine missing persons case and finds himself in a nightmare of voodoo, black magic, and violent death

WARNER BOOKS

Alp;: A novel

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

Toro! Toro! Toro!

Simon&Schuster

While a killer recreates grisly scenes from the pages of Edgar Allen Poe in 1920s New York, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is haunted by Poe's ghost, and Harry Houdini falls in love with a beautiful clairvoyant. 75,000 first printing. $65,000 ad/promo.

United States

Atlantic Monthly Pr

Falling Angel: A Novel (The Falling Angel Novels Book 1)

Humor & Entertainment

Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

Open Road Media

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