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James Ellroy
America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy’s presidency.
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Los Angeles, 15th January 1947. A beautiful young woman walks into the night and meets a horrific destiny. extraordinarily well written’ - The Times ‘The outstanding crime writer of his…
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1950s Los Angeles- The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death.Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into…
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Fan favourite Freddy Otash is at large once more, tasked with running the cover-up on Marilyn Monroe's life and death.
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The Black Dahlia depicts the infrastructure of L.A.‘s most sensational murder case. White Jazz gives us the tortured confession of a cop who’s gone to the bad - killer, slum…
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It’s 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America’s soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies…
Hideo Ashida is a brilliant police chemist and the only Japanese on the payroll. Four driven souls - rivals, lovers, history’s pawns - thrown into an investigation which will not…
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles- a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals.Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three…
From The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks…
Publisher’s Weekly says Suicide Hill is a book that hurtles along with almost equal gore and slapstick … L.A.‘s sleazy sides are brilliantly drawn … Ellroy can’t write a dull…
In this crime novel, there is a man on the loose in America. A man who kills for the sheer pleasure of spilling blood. A man who rearranges the mutilated…
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From one of the great American writers of our time ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ) comes the follow-up to Perfidia and the second installment of his L.A. Quartet–a…
James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative and profanely hilarious - a luminous psychological drama and an unparalleled thrill ride
Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through…
Conversations with the author of such acclaimed works as American Tabloid, L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia
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Nathan Ashman
This book addresses the voyeuristic dimensions of James Ellroy’s fiction, one of the most significant yet underexplored areas of his work. Focusing exclusively on The L.A. Quartet and The Underworld…
Jim Mancall
This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy’s work and life is arranged as an encyclopedia covering his entire career. It introduces new readers to his characters and plots, and provides experienced…
Steven Powell
James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction is a study of all of Ellroy’s key works, from his debut novel Brown’s Requiem to the epic Underworld USA trilogy. This book…
On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, had been brutally murdered. In…
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Jazz blanco es una novela extraordinaria, el fresco brutal de una ciudad en la que reinan las ambiciones descarnadas, y cierra de forma magistral el Cuarteto de Los Angeles…
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * James Ellroy-Demon Dog of American Letters-goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe…
Conspiracies theories are taking hold. At the center of it all is a triumvirate: the presidents strong-arm goon, an ex-cop and heroin runner, and a private eye so dangerous she…
Los Angeles, 1951. Fred Underhill is a very intelligent police officer, perseverant, women lover and ambitious. The death of a woman and the discovery of a killer will serve him…
Joe caught Klein flush in the stomach and ripped upward with both hands. Blood spurted from his mouth… Suicide Hill. At first, it was almost a game. But it turned…
A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, My Dark Places presents the harrowing autobiography of crime writer James Ellroy…
Exploracion del bajo mundo del crimen y la violencia en la epoca dorada de Hollywood, L.A. Confidential es la tercera novela del Cuarteto de Los Angeles , tetralogia que se…
The author of The Black Dahlia presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In The Big Nowhere, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition…
America’s greatest crime writer investigates his mother’s murder. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of…
There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan. This…
Somewhere out there is a murderer with over twenty killings to his name - each an apparently random slaying of a woman, over a twenty-year period and all unconnected on…
Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans - but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins. It is World War II…
A collection of Ellroy’s true stories, including the only two unsolved murder cases on police file in the author’s home town in California. Original novellas, Hollywood Shakedown and Tijuana Mon…
Dick Contino, a 50s accordion player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea…
The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted for his…
Offering the best examples of literary sure things gone bad, this collection ensures that nowhere else can readers find a darker, more thorough distillation of American noir fiction. James Ellroy…
Part I originally published (in slightly different form) in ebook format as ‘Shakedown’ by Byliner Fiction in 2012 –Copyright page.
Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy ‘Fat Dog’…
In the early 1950s, rookie cop Freddy Underhill patrols Los Angeles from Wilshire to Watts, dreaming of making the big bust that will grab headlines and bring him glory. And…
Twenty random murders of women remain unconnected in police files, but Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins sees a pattern. Intelligence and madness are pitted against each other in the shattering climax.
The internationally bestselling author of White Jazz delivers a collection of short stories set in 1950’s Los Angeles that are replete with the dark prose and biting humor that have…
The Black Dahlia is a roman noir on an epic scale: a classic period piece that provides a startling conclusion to America’s most infamous unsolved murder mystery–the murder of the…
L.A. Confidential is epic noir , a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives…
‘James Ellroy is a genius: the finest American crime writer since Raymond Chandler, and one of the most readable experimental writers in the world’ TLS ‘All Ellroy’s preoccupations are present…
Los Angeles 1951 - Frederick Underhill, an ambitious rookie of the Los Angeles Police Department, want to become the most celebrated detective of his time.
Political noir as only Ellroy can write it, Blood’s A Rover is a novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war…
From the widely acclaimed author of L.A. Confidential comes the absorbing story of three man caught in a massive web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. The Big Nowhere makes you…
A single-volume edition of three of the novels featuring Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of Los Angeles. The first involves the apparently random killings of 20 women, the second a multiple…
The highly acclaimed novel from bestselling author James Ellroy is now a major motion picture.