Boulevard Dreams by E Ryan Janz

In this intelligent and dark humored mystery set in 1958 San Francisco, a down and out private eye, Joe Nails, experiences surrealistic dreams, in which his once best friend pleads for Joe’s help before turning a gun to his own head and firing. Joe sets out to locate him and discovers he vanished weeks before the dreams began. As his investigation deepens, he becomes embroiled in an encircling world of murder, deception and confusion, until Joe Nails finds himself staring into the dreadful face of the unimaginable.