To Die in Beverly Hills,
by Gerald Petievich, was published in hardcover by Arbor House in 1983. The
edition that caught my eye was Pinnacle Books’ mass market edition published in
1984. The cover has a cool Florida / Caribbean vibe to it—even if the tale is
set in Southern California—with palm trees, and orange sky, a Rolls, and bullet
holes. The artist: Paul Stinson
The first paragraph:
The Bulletin board in
the Detective Bureau was covered with a
clear-plastic burglary occurrence chart dotted with red stickpins. Because
Beverly Hills was a rich man’s city, burglary was the only crime with enough
weekly activity to be charted.
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