Los Angeles is the birthplace of noir because the brighter the sunshine, the deeper the shadows and the more deadly the mischief that goes on in the dark.
Angeltown: The Nate Hollis Investigations reprints the DC/Vertigo mini-series in glorious black and white. A critically praised sequential illustrated mystery featuring the cool, tough private eye's frenzied search in the swank and rugged areas of the City of Angels for a pro hoopster wanted for murder in "Baller."
Additionally, mystery novelist and comics writer Gary Phillips has penned two original illustrated prose short stories for this volume; "Hollywood Killer," wherein superhero pretenders prowling Hollywood Boulevard for tips are getting bumped off, and "King Cow," about cattle, lowriders, and babes with Nazi tattoos.