Interview with Fiction Author and Legal professional Daniel McLinden
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The morning after Elvis died, Harry, a law student, working for a Century City law firm, lets a stewardess, running scared, into his Hollywood bungalow, to hide from her boyfriend, a rock star, hellbent on silencing her. When the coast is clear, she leaves Harry's place and tells him she's calling the police. By evening, she's gone missing.
Teddy, a Hollywood police detective starts looking for her, keeps Harry informed, and deputizes him for an interview with the suspect. All leads dead-end until the unexpected happens.
In this novel, young LA dwellers (Harry, Teddy and others) add rich color and wry humor to a plot drenched in mystery.
You won't want to put it down.
About the Author
Daniel McLinden is a writer, educator, and attorney. After many years of civil trial work, he began teaching law in community colleges in Los Angeles. Before becoming a lawyer, he taught ESL to migrant workers, and Spanish to mental health workers, state prisoners, and university students in Utah. In his early twenties he hitch-hiked from San Diego, California to Puno, Peru and back, including three weeks on the Amazon, then later through Europe and Canada. He logged in Alaska, mined in Idaho, and worked construction in Montana.
Growing up in a Navy family he attended thirteen schools before graduating high school, and, with six siblings, lived in thirteen cities in eight states.
He wrote “Tracks” a generational novel about a fictional Mexican immigrant family and “Civil Rights in America – A Handbook of Legal History” a textbook for law and history students. His most recent novel, “Wrongful Death” looks back at crime-solving and life as a messenger/paralegal/law student in the late seventies in Hollywood, where he spent many years.
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The morning after Elvis died, Harry, a law student, working for a Century City law firm, lets a stewardess, running scared, into his Hollywood bungalow, to hide from her boyfriend, a rock star, hellbent on silencing her. When the coast is clear, she leaves Harry's place and tells him she's calling the police. By evening, she's gone missing.
Teddy, a Hollywood police detective starts looking for her, keeps Harry informed, and deputizes him for an interview with the suspect. All leads dead-end until the unexpected happens.
In this novel, young LA dwellers (Harry, Teddy and others) add rich color and wry humor to a plot drenched in mystery.
You won't want to put it down.
About the Author
Daniel McLinden is a writer, educator, and attorney. After many years of civil trial work, he began teaching law in community colleges in Los Angeles. Before becoming a lawyer, he taught ESL to migrant workers, and Spanish to mental health workers, state prisoners, and university students in Utah. In his early twenties he hitch-hiked from San Diego, California to Puno, Peru and back, including three weeks on the Amazon, then later through Europe and Canada. He logged in Alaska, mined in Idaho, and worked construction in Montana.
Growing up in a Navy family he attended thirteen schools before graduating high school, and, with six siblings, lived in thirteen cities in eight states.
He wrote “Tracks” a generational novel about a fictional Mexican immigrant family and “Civil Rights in America – A Handbook of Legal History” a textbook for law and history students. His most recent novel, “Wrongful Death” looks back at crime-solving and life as a messenger/paralegal/law student in the late seventies in Hollywood, where he spent many years.
