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Flamingo Court

By: J.T. Conroe
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Flamingo Court is a ride back to the summer of 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War. Thousands of Americans, their lives forever changed by the war, are migrating westward for a fresh start -- many to Los Angeles and its booming economy, its golden beaches, its cloudless skies, its graceful palm trees, its Hollywood glamour. Sure, there’s the smog, and the city is infested with rampant crime and police corruption, but that just makes reading the newspapers interesting. The newcomers don’t know it, because most of them don’t read French film critics, but they’re entering L.A. noir territory.

Jay Harcourt, a wounded veteran of the battle for Saipan, has started a career as a free-lance screenwriter. That’s not his real name, but who in Hollywood uses their real name? He hopes to capitalize on the mutual fascination between Hollywood and the L.A. mob by writing a serious gangster script. With that in mind, end he has become friendly with a number of mobsters, including the notorious Bugsy Siegel. Mixing with gangsters is not risk-free and when he accidentally witnesses Siegel’s assassination (the opening shots of what is to become known as the Sunset Strip War), he is forced to get out of town until things cool down a bit. He heads for Mexico where he has a standing invitation to help with the script of a film being shot on location by John Huston. While there, he learns that the secret of his real identity is no longer secure. It’s a secret he must protect at all costs.

Hollywood, at that time, is in upheaval. The government has forced the studios to shed the theaters that gave them a guaranteed market for their movies. Powerful Congressmen are charging them with harboring communist writers intent on subverting the American way of life. Television is looming as a serious competitor. The Hays Office is stifling their creativity and their ability to make serious movies about serious subjects. However, film directors like John Huston and Billy Wilder are just hitting their stride. New writers, actors, and directors, many of them war veterans, have arrived and are eager to take the movies in new directions. It was an exciting time. Crime Fiction Mafia
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