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James Ellroy
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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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…
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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…
Los Angeles 1951 - Frederick Underhill, an ambitious rookie of the Los Angeles Police Department, want to become the most celebrated detective of his time.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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"--
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…
America’s greatest living crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir - as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels - about his obsessive search for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Otto Penzler,James Ellroy
A treasure trove of a hundred years’ worth of the finest noir writing selected by James Ellroy
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…
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…
