Let’s All Kill Constance

Let’s All Kill Constance
Ray Douglas Bradbury

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic novels, available in ebook for the first time.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. 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.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.

Let’s All Kill Constance

Ray Bradbury

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Ebook Edition © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007541775

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Dedication (#ulink_055a905f-47d1-5ca4-9b1f-79824f2ecdf9)

This book is dedicated

with love

to my daughter

ALEXANDRA,

without whose help

the Third Millennium

might never have arrived.

and

again

with gratitude

and love

to

SID STEBEL

Contents

Cover (#u5ea0f43b-0861-5fb4-9353-a1db71f35062)

Title Page (#u44dad1eb-73b7-5b45-a237-ad0dbdf0a636)

Copyright (#ulink_3e5e1cea-3b24-595a-af0c-e9201ead135a)

Dedication (#ulink_f785cbe4-9955-5930-a61e-21e23e6104b3)

Chapter One (#ulink_50fc40da-c812-5d6b-9556-6bdca9d7d533)

Chapter Two (#ulink_9f495a4c-cc4d-5060-93b5-faa5b6f603c8)

Chapter Three (#ulink_eeb2d83d-b0bd-549f-9aa4-3ba9524b3f8c)

Chapter Four (#ulink_9ffbfda9-a767-5629-bf07-6422c445045b)

Chapter Five (#ulink_47e3fd1a-2995-56d1-846b-ea055d420c85)

Chapter Six (#ulink_d8f14523-e2b7-5ed5-83e7-63abebbf4acb)

Chapter Seven (#ulink_0fdba8df-686c-5b5f-abbf-b7b4a02d0f5f)

Chapter Eight (#ulink_79253aea-2105-528b-9f22-324e9672b731)

Chapter Nine (#ulink_8b772d2f-6318-5905-a156-8624ce4b3200)

Chapter Ten (#ulink_71c767bc-5829-5407-bca9-9ca7e6ac22b5)

Chapter Eleven (#ulink_15051bbd-08c5-52a8-ba86-2e26b5d31b72)

Chapter Twelve (#ulink_2a4f5801-47e8-5a9c-b825-54fb187b4e3d)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)