author: james ellroy

The novel takes these cops on a sprawling epic of brutal violence and the murderous seedy side of Hollywood.

L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia.

Band 3 des berühmten L.A.-Quartetts. Lesen Sie auch Die Rothaarige. Die Suche nach dem Mörder meiner Mutter - James Ellroys wichtigsten autobiographischen Text; ein Klassiker der Kriminalliteratur.

... American history ' Sunday Telegraph 1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last ... backside , the inside , the blood and the guts ' Sunday Times ' Laconic violence , terse , slang - driven sentences ...

Book 2 in Ellroy's loose quartet of life and crime in 1950's Los Angeles. Start with The Black dahlia ; LA Confidential ; Big nowhere and finish with the staccato White jazz.

The Dahlia claims him. She is the deus ex machina of a boomtown in extremis. The cop's rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell. The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel and the political novel.

The D. A.'s brass, a sheriff's deputy, and a rough-and-tumble bagman are unknowingly chasing a nightmare in this thrilling novel from the author of "some of the most powerful crime novels ever written" (New York Times).

Three of the most epic and powerful crime novels ever written, this volume is an explosive journey through the dark side of recent American history, and crime writing at its best.

The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel with the political novel.

... hot . Cal Dinkins took heat for Playboy . He bopped away from his stakeout post . Playboy plowed a barri- cade and ... housewives and naughty snapshots . The D.A. declined to file charges . The Herald ran a picture . Johnny looked like ...

Los Angeles, 15th January 1947. A beautiful young woman walks into the night and meets a horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body is found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers call her 'The Black Dahlia'.

This is James Ellroy's second collection of short pieces following on from Dick Contino's Blues.

In James Ellroy's riveting second novel, an ambitious beat cop is hot on the trail of a serial killer who frequents L.A. dive bars and preys on the fallen women he finds there.

The best-selling author of L.A. Confidential and My Dark Places returns to the city of angels to present fourteen pieces of fiction and nonfiction that includes "Balls to the Wall," a reflection on boxing; the autobiographical "My Life as a ...

Here, Ellroy gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America’s ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured.

A novel James Ellroy. GLOSSARY OF POLICE AND CRIMINAL TERMS , CODES , AND ABBREVIATIONS 211: The California Penal Code designation for armed robbery. 459: Glossary of Police and Criminal Terms, Codes, and Abbreviations.

... Anal Annie's Love Bench . " I saw that the circumference was slightly larger than the muzzle specification of an S & W magnum I was particularly fond of , and remembered a jail rap on the construction of homemade silencers . Knowing it ...

... overlord and would - be nightclub shtickster - I was a bagman to the LAPD ... Lizard Ridge , Oklahoma , armadillo poacher ; strikebreaker goon ; cop ... woman- and , of course , being a suicidal Okie shitkicker , forty - one years old and ...

... Coffee klatch. Strict dress code. Olive drabs for SIS. Statie fasco black ... donkey show at the Blue Fox.” Melnick slapped his knees. Almond flecks flew ... coffee. “We've got sixteen dead saboteurs. You could say we got lucky, and let ...