Umberto Tosi

The Phantom Eye: A Frank Ritz Mystery Umberto Tosi

Heiress, actress and old flame Lola Vale leads one-eyed PI Frank Ritz into a vortex of movieland intrigue, murder, corruption, and vice in this edgy, remastered homage to 1950s Hollywood Noir."Tosi has a wicked eye himself for the sinister follies and misfortunes of primeval Hollywood, a territory he well knows from his own boyhood and his career as a journalist, from the '40s through the early '60s..." John Blades, Chicago Tribune book editor emeritus, fiction editor, Chicago Quarterly Review."In 'The Phantom Eye' Umberto Tosi takes to Raymond Chandler's mean streets, 'dark with something more than night', in a faithful homage that never loses a singular spring in its step. The labyrinthine plot would have delighted the Master. And when Tosi chooses now and then to slip into Chandler mode, he rocks the chandeliers. Highly recommended!' Reb McGrath, author of The Seattle BOP Mysteries. "... reminds me of Chandler's The Little Sister, and The Big Sleep of course." - Actor, playwright, author, director Gary Houston.