The Glitter Dome -- Joseph Wambaugh, Mass Market Paperbound

A grim look at the ugly underbelly of life as a Hollywood copy

It's the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD cops, including homicide detectives Martin Welborn and Al Mackey, who get assigned the case of a murdered Hollywood studio boss who may have been involved in some very strange and dangerous filmmaking.

Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 05/01/1992
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 6.84h x 4.21w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780553272598

About the Author
Joseph Wambaugh is the hard-hitting bestselling writer who conveys the passionate immediacy of a special world. He was a police officer with the LAPD for 14 years before retiring in 1974, during which time he published three bestselling novels. Over the course of his career, Wambaugh has been the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, all written in his gritty, distinctive noir-ish style. He's won multiple Edgar Awards, and several of his books have been made into feature films and TV movies. He lives in California with his wife.