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Death Is a Lonely Business

  • 1985 first published
  • 277 pages
  • 25 editions

Death Is a Lonely Business is a 1985 angel fiction novel by Ray Bradbury. The story is set in California and Calif.) Venice (Los Angeles. Key subjects include private investigators, screenwriters, serial murders and american Authors.

34 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 25 editions across 5 languages.

It runs to roughly 277 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Death Is a Lonely Business

I first came upon this novel purely by accident, I was doing an evening class course at a local technical college, and I went into the college library to check out useful books. I was surprised to see ordinary library books and chuffed to see a Ray Bradbury volume. Since discovering Bradbury I'd become an addict scouring every available source for my fix, this was an particular delight as I'd never heard of or seen it anywhere else. I was living in digs and decided to start it one evening with the consideration of simply reading some before going to bed as I had to work the next day. However I couldn't put it down such that I stopped checking the time, and just had to keep reading until I had finished it completely. When I did recheck the hour it was gone 2 o'clock in the morning, as I had been so consumed with it that I lost all track of time, I just had to read it all. In searching for a copy of the novel I located an audiobook version, though not from even a United Kingdom source but from Tandor Media from the USA. I was honestly disappointed at the first hearing, in the way it was presented, as more of a conventional detective yarn, similar to what has become the rather hackneyed form of cops n' robbers. Reading a story gave me a sense of it that didn't come across in the audio version. Yes it is a detective murder mystery but oh so much more than that.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Private investigators
  • Screenwriters
  • Serial murders
  • American Authors
  • Mystery & detective
  • Los angeles, Calif.

Quick answers

Who wrote Death Is a Lonely Business?

Death Is a Lonely Business was written by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1985.

What genre is Death Is a Lonely Business?

It is usually shelved as Angel Fiction.

How long is Death Is a Lonely Business?

The median edition has 277 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Death Is a Lonely Business?

Readers who like it often enjoy Blood Work, A Darkness More Than Night and The Narrows.

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