Cyphre enigmatically wants to collect on a debt Favorite owed Cyphre for helping the singer with his career. Harry Angel (every character has a unique and revealing name) is a private eye in 1959 New York who is hired by a bizarre character named Louis Cyphre to find a missing pre-World War II crooner named Johnny Favorite.
Like skilled horror writers, Hjortsberg grounds the novels in realism. The novel was Falling Angel, and Hjortsberg innovatively combined the hard-boiled detective genre with the horror one, or as Stephen King so aptly put it, the result was if “Raymond Chandler wrote The Exorcist.” In 1978 William Hjortsberg produced a novel based on one of those ideas so obvious that you wonder why it hadn’t been done before.
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