Synopsis/Details
Edgar Allan is a mess. She’s an alcoholic crime writer whose ex-girlfriend shows up for quickies after Edgar caught her cheating and threw her out. Her driver’s license has been revoked, and lately she’s been riding around in the back of Ubers, endlessly adding rides while she drunk writes about family annihilators without getting too close. Not too close, like her crime writer father, Edgar Allan Sr., got to the scene. But he was “the shit,” according to her publisher and his ex-lover, Caroline. He was “better than Anne Rule,” even. Too bad he fell, jumped, or was pushed out of the 20th-story hotel window in downtown Los Angeles after getting involved in the slayings that happened on Skid Row. But Edgar Allan’s father was never there for her anyway, only giving her his name, which her grandfather had given to him because he was such a Poe fanatic. Caroline was right, though; she hadn’t really done anything with it. But when she gets into a whiskey-addled fight with a driver and is dumped out on Skid Row, she witnesses a woman being brutally stabbed to death in a dark alley, forcing her to pick up where her father left off in solving one of the biggest crime mysteries in LA history while continuing to grapple with the past.
Story & Logistics
Story Type:
Pursuit
Story Situation:
Discovery of the dishonour of a loved one
Story Conclusion:
Surprise Twist
Linear Structure:
Non-linear
Moral Affections:
Accusation, Acquittal, Bad Man, Condemnation, Contempt, Dereliction of Duty, Detraction, Good Man, Illegality, Impenitence, Intemperance, Knave, Punishment, Scourge, Selfishness, Sensulist, Vice, Wrong
Cast Size:
Many
Locations:
Many
Special Effects:
Blood
Characters
Lead Role Ages:
Female Adult, Male Adult
Hero Type:
Anti-Hero, Ordinary, Unfortunate
Villian Type:
Authority Figure, Corrupted, Criminal, Pure Evil
Advanced
Subgenre:
Addiction, Conspiracy, Crime Drama, Detective/Private Eye/Mystery, Fish-out-water, Hard-boiled Detective, Investigative Reporting, Mysteries, Neo-Noir, Suspense-Thriller, Tragedy, Victim
Equality & Diversity:
Female Protagonist, LGBT+ Focused, Passes Bechdel Test
Life Topics:
Childhood, Death
Drug Topics:
Illegal Drugs
Time Period:
Contemporary times
Country:
United States of America (USA)
Illness Topics:
Psychological
Relationship Topics:
Breakup, Child, Love, Passion, Same-sex, Sexuality
Writer Style:
Ingmar Bergman, Raymond Chandler, Robert Towne
