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The High Tower apartments
Photo By Wendy Werris
Excerpt from Echo Park
Bosch stepped out from beneath the overhead door and looked up at the High Tower apartments. It was a place unique to Hollywood. A conglomeration of apartments built into the extruded granite of the hills behind the Hollywood Bowl.
They were of Streamline Moderne design and all linked at the center by the slim structure that housed the elevator—the high tower for which the street and complex took its name. Bosch had lived in this neighborhood for a time as a boy. From his home on nearby Camrose he could hear the orchestras practicing in the bowl on summer days. If he stood on the roof he could see the fireworks on the Fourth and at the close of the season.
At night he had seen the windows on the High Tower glowing with light. He'd see the elevator pass in front of them on its way up, delivering another person home. He had thought as a boy that living in a place where you took an elevator home had to be the height of luxury.
Echo Park
In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case. But the young woman never turned up - dead or alive - and it was a case Bosch couldn't crack. This is Michael Connelly's eleventh Harry Bosch thriller. Find out more about Echo Park.
