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Crime and the City: Las Vegas ‹ CrimeReads
Let's go to Las Vegas with one of the great kings of the American hard-boiled Charles Willeford in his novel
Wicked Wives
(1956):
'Once the sun comes up in the desert it rises fast. It hung on the horizon like a solid neon pumpkin, beaming through our windshield. It grew warmer all the time. The closer we got to Vegas, the more numerous the…