A journalist without scruples shake the dirty bowels of the famous and kill if necessary in defense of the yellow press. A famous accordionist becomes addicted to murder. A man browsing the police records, investigates cases to discover possible links with the murder of his mother. Behind them is James Ellroy, the man, his curiosity, his powers of observation and, above all, his life experience. Ellroy naked, honest, brutal and crazy at times, drags the reader through these chronicles.