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James Ellroy
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…
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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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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.
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…
