20世纪40年代末，被人遗忘的加州威尼斯小镇，暴风雨来袭的深夜，一位穷困潦倒的推理作家坐在空荡荡的电车车厢里。伴随着电车的哀鸣，一个酩酊大醉的男人坐在了他身后，口中絮叨着一些关于死亡的话，但作家始终不敢转过头看这个人的模样。下车后，他在阴暗的运河里发现了一具尸体。接下来几天，他周围的人开始遭遇一系列神秘的意外。
常年卧床的金丝雀老妇人、蹩脚的理发师、精明的警探、终日大门不迈的女歌唱家、长着爱伦·坡式面孔的小个子老人、过气的好莱坞女星……
在这座大雾笼罩的小镇里，谁将成为死亡名单中的下一个？谁又是躲在暗处的凶手？
Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s.
Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort – until strange things begin happening around him.
Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious “accidents” – some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.
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