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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. Summer 1962. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. And Freddy-O is back. This is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative and profanely hilarious
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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…
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…
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…
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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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, the author of L.A. Confidential returns to his native habitat and portrays Los Angeles as a smog-shrouded netherworld.
Conversations with the author of such acclaimed works as American Tabloid, L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia
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Born Lee Earle Ellroy in 1948, James Ellroy is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers of crime and historical fiction. This title presents a collection of…
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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…
ELLROY
Perennially popular, this anthology is a favorite of mystery buffs and general readers alike. This year Ellroy lends his talent to the editing of the series.
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The bestselling author of My Dark Places and L.A. Confidential returns with a new collection of flash-lit scenes from America’s capital of kink–Los Angeles.
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…
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…
Continuing the audacious fictional counter-history that he began in American Tabloid, the demon dog of American literature reimagines the bloody events that erupted in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and…
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…
On January 15, 1947, the tortured and mutilated body of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. At the time, the brutality of her…
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…
Rick Rino Jenson, a violent and overbearing fascist police of the police department of Los Angeles and Donna Donohue, an actress, star in an intense love story that lasts for…
Part I originally published (in slightly different form) in ebook format as ‘Shakedown’ by Byliner Fiction in 2012 –Copyright page.
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…
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 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…
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…
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in…
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…
