Works by Kent Braithwaite
The Wonderland
Murders
Type of work: Novel
Published by: Four Seasons Publishers, 1999
ISBN: 1-891929-33-X
Setting: Coastal southern CA (primarily Orange County), northern Nevada,
 week of July
4, 1999.
Brief plot description: Echoes from America's emerging multicultural society
reverberate through
Jesse Ascencio's debut case as our poetry-writing
Latino private
cop finds himself confronted by a series of homicides that
occur at an amusement
park.
Character notes: Jesse Ascencio is not only a poet, but he is also a former
FBI agent and
an ex-congressman who is married into a well-connected
Southern California
family.
Other notes: The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin referred to the novel
as "a story
with definite
regional interest" with a "perfect setting for a murder mystery"
and referred
to Jesse Ascencio as "a reach back to Raymond Chandler's
Philip Marlowe
and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer."
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Last updated: August 4, 2000
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