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James Ellroy
This gripping graphic novel adaptation delves deeply into one of the most haunting unsolved crimes in American history.
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A crime novel depicting Los Angeles in the 1950s, where the police are as corrupt as the criminals and events threaten to expose the secrets on which they have built…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Los Angeles, 1958- a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder.Lieutenant Dave Klein- in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord…
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Los Angeles 1951 - Frederick Underhill, an ambitious rookie of the Los Angeles Police Department, want to become the most celebrated detective of his time.
James Ellroy’s identity as a crime writer is rooted in his extraordinary life story and relationship with his home city of Los Angeles. Beginning with the unsolved murder of his…
Dr Steven Powell (University of Liverpool, UK)
"The first biography of James Ellroy, telling the extraordinary story of his lifelong obsessions with crime, sex, and America's secret history"--
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James Ellroy retoma la historia de Perfidia con esta nueva y brutal entrega del segundo Cuarteto de Los Angeles, durante los anos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Enero de 1942…
The first UK publication of a crime novel in which the ex-lover of an ambitious detective is murdered, and the detective finds himself working on the case with Los Angeles…
A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information-no one except Detective Sergeant…
Uno acude a Ellroy para revolcarse en la sangre y el barro, para someterse a los giros y traiciones de la trama . Los Angeles Times
Regresa el maestro moderno…
Peter Wolfe
James Ellroy’s prose, in many ways as complex as any in the Western literary canon, strung together sensational stories of crime and catastrophe. The significance of his writing to Western…
James Ellroy,Jack Webb
This is the city, Los Angeles, California. I work here, I carry a badge. The story you are about to see is true…
Available for the first time in trade paperback, Hollywood Nocturnes offers six stories written by the author of L.A. Confidential , set in the exotic noir locale of Los Angeles…
Blood’s a Rover takes us into the 70s. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There’s an armoured-car…
Glynn Martin
LA has known its share of notorious murderers. Hickman, Glatman, Bashor, Sirhan, Manson, Turner, Bianchi and Buono, just to name an ugly few. These remain stories told once and again…
Otto Penzler,James Ellroy
A treasure trove of a hundred years’ worth of the finest noir writing selected by James Ellroy
America was never innocent.
Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It’s James Ellroy’s pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper’s view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster’s take on the…
And we’re there in Dallas in 1963 where it all comes to a brutal end. The Cold Six Thousand the cover-up for the Kennedy assassination begins. This time the ride…
The Black Dahlia depicts the infrastructure of L.A.‘s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into the obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. His rogue investigation is a one-way ticket…
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’…
James Ellroy,Los Angeles Police Museum
James Ellroy, the bestselling author and master of LA noir, takes a look at a notable year of crime and perversity in Los Angeles alongside compelling vintage photos from the…
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Neville Wakefield,James Ellroy,Charlotte Cotton
Malerie Marder is one of the first practitioners of a style of high-colour photography that came out of Yale in the late 1990s. This book tells the story of Marders…
Emphasizing themes of politics, art, history, memory, and crime, these interdisciplinary essays illuminate the darkness present in the fiction and non-fiction of critically acclaimed and bestselling author James Ellroy. The…