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Difference between revisions of "Johnny Troy"
(New page: Pop star from the 1964 novel ''The Trojan Hearse'' by Richard S. Prather. blurb: Johnny Troy - America's top pop singer - was dead. Resting peacefully six foot under. Until his fans du...) |
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| − | Pop star from the 1964 novel ''The Trojan Hearse'' by Richard S. Prather. | + | Pop star from the 1964 novel ''The Trojan Hearse'' by Richard S. Prather. Featuring hard-boiled detective Shell Scott, the star of some 30 novels, and a Johnny Troy fan: "I could listen for hours to the golden notes, the sweet sad sound, the richly magnificent tone and phrasing of the voice of Johnny Troy." (p.6) |
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Why? They had learned the sordid truth about the boy with the golden voice. | Why? They had learned the sordid truth about the boy with the golden voice. | ||
And the effect of that incident threatened a national ejection, stirred up the Mafia and brought Shell Scott bang into the most incredible case of his life. | And the effect of that incident threatened a national ejection, stirred up the Mafia and brought Shell Scott bang into the most incredible case of his life. | ||
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Revision as of 11:53, 15 October 2010
Pop star from the 1964 novel The Trojan Hearse by Richard S. Prather. Featuring hard-boiled detective Shell Scott, the star of some 30 novels, and a Johnny Troy fan: "I could listen for hours to the golden notes, the sweet sad sound, the richly magnificent tone and phrasing of the voice of Johnny Troy." (p.6)
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Johnny Troy - America's top pop singer - was dead. Resting peacefully six foot under. Until his fans dug him up in a fury and tore the corpse limb from limb. Why? They had learned the sordid truth about the boy with the golden voice. And the effect of that incident threatened a national ejection, stirred up the Mafia and brought Shell Scott bang into the most incredible case of his life.
