title: The Secrets of Harry Bright
author:  Joseph Wambaugh 
description: Seventeen months ago the California desert revealed the remains of Jack Watson. The rich man's son was found incinerated in a Rolls-Royce, a bullet in his head. Now, a year and a half later, Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective Sidney Blackpool is called into the desert to take on the case. But what begins for Blackpool is an investigation sandwiched between golf games in nearby Palm Springs quickly becomes an obsession.
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  [ALSO BY JOSEPH WAMBAUGH](BlueKnight_toc.html#ad_card_1)
  
  
  
  
  
  FICTION
  
  
  _The New Centurions_
  
  
  _The Blue Knight_
  
  
  _The Choirboys_
  
  
  _The Black Marble_
  
  
  _The Glitter Dome_
  
  
  _The Delta Star_
  
  
  _The Secrets of Harry Bright_
  
  
  _The Golden Orange_
  
  
  _Fugitive Nights_
  
  
  _Finnegan’s Week_
  
  
  _Floaters_
  
  
  _Hollywood Station_
  
  
  
  
  
  NONFICTION
  
  
  _The Onion Field_
  
  
  _Lines and Shadows_
  
  
  _Echoes in the Darkness_
  
  
  _The Blooding_
  
  
  _Fire Lover_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  From Joseph Wambaugh,
  
  
  the master of the cop thriller,
  
  
  comes his most gripping,
  
  
  sensational novel ever . . .
  
  
  
  
  
  Please turn this page
  
  
  for a preview
  
  
  **_HOLLYWOOD CROWS_**
  
  
  Available in hardcover
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [ABOUT THE AUTHOR](BlueKnight_toc.html#auth_bio_1)
  
  
  Joseph Wambaugh, a former LAPD detective sergeant, is the _New York Times_
  bestselling author of sixteen prior works of fiction and nonfiction, many of
  which have been adapted for the big and small screen, including _The Onion
  Field_ and _The Choirboys_. He is a Grand Master of the M