Happy Doll
Author
Author
Series
Happy Doll volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
From the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, a deliciously noir novel about idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll and his quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles as "quirky, edgy, charming, funny and serious" as its protagonist (Lee Child). Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff drop beneath the Hollywood sign with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. A veteran...
Author
Series
Happy Doll volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books / Little, Brown Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney after the previous caper, Happy Doll is back in business. When a beguiling young woman turns up at his door, it's Doll's past that comes knocking. Mary DeAngelo is searching for her estranged mother, Ines Candle--a singular and troubled woman Doll once loved. The last he';d seen her she'd been near-death: arms slit like envelopes. Although she survived the episode, she vanished shortly thereafter....
3) Karma Doll
Author
Series
Happy Doll volume 3
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"After narrowly escaping with his life at the hands of a murderous Hollywood pimp, detective Happy Doll, bullet-ridden but healing, has landed on a remote Mexican beach. In a humble shack and with his dog for company, Doll settles into a peaceful idyll of Buddhist study. But then trouble, as it always does, comes to paradise. Doll is the witness to a murder for which he is framed, and now, with an expired passport and the Mexican authorities on his...