The Dirty City

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Special thanks must go to my three readers who helped me find spelling mistakes and missing words, and most importantly, told me which bits of my books sucked!

So, thank you Shreyonti Chakraborty, William Fletcher, Angie Weber and Rashad Freeman.

This book was inspired by my very sudden obsession with all things Film Noir and Hard-Boiled Detective that I developed in early 2014. Initially it was going to be a screenplay for a short film in the Film Noir style, which it became apparent I’d never get to make. Then it mutated into a short story idea. Then I discovered (rather belatedly) the wonder that is self publishing and thought I might be able flesh this out into a book. Then, while planning said book, I succumbed to my love of horror and decided to turn the whole thing on it’s head by sticking some vampires in there. And here we are.

One thing note that one of my wonderful beta readers, Angie Weber, pointed out to me that I should make clear - I’m a British author, and I write using my native British spelling, and this seems to cause a bit of confusion as my book is set in the US and the characters are American. I did consider replacing all the British spellings to Americanised spellings, but then I figured that would probably be a step too far. I think it’s best if I just forewarn you that despite it’s setting, this is a British book, and so on behalf of Great Britain, I apologise in advance about the freaky way we spell works like ‘colour’ and ‘centre’ - and for the way we seem to discriminate against the letter ‘z’ - almost always, and probably very unfairly, favouring the letter ‘s’ in it’s place! But I’m afraid I don’t think we’re going to stop doing these odd things at point soon.

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