<p>On a dismal evening in the previous century an unnamed writer in Venice California answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life.</p><p>An aging once-glamorous Hollywood star Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge—and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead with Constance's name included among them.</p><p>And so begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick Crumley to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood—a graveyard of ghosts and secrets where each twisted road leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams ... and all too often to death.</p>
