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LA Confidential: Classic Noir by James Ellroy
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: L.A. Quartet
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers. ...Show more
LAPD '53 by James Ellroy
Category: Accessories
James Ellroy, the undisputed master and artist of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to expose the lurid underside of LA in the mid 1950s. After combing through the photo archives of the LA Police Museum, he discovered that 1953 featured the most unusual and striking imagery ...Show more
My Dark Places by James Ellroy
Category: Biography
'Ellroy is a unique voice in American fiction' - Jonathan Kellerman. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her 10 year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murde ...Show more
Perfidia by James Ellroy
Category: Fiction
It is December 6, 1941, in Los Angeles. World War II has raged for two years in Great Britain and Europe. Japan has gone on a rampage in Asia and the Pacific - and America's entrance into the war is a widely accepted and utterly foregone conclusion. Los Angeles is mainland America's gateway to the Pacif ...Show more
Perfidia (Second LA Quartet #1) by James Ellroy
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: #1 in the second LA Quartet
Nominated for the Folio Prize It is December 6 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans - but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese in ...Show more
The Big Nowhere (#2 L.A. Quartet) by James Ellroy
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: L.A. Quartet
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 a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own pers ...Show more
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Category: Fiction
It is Los Angeles, 11th January 1947. A beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in shelf. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hell ...Show more
The Black Dahlia: The first book in the classic L.A. Quartet crime series by James Ellroy
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: L.A. Quartet
Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish jou ...Show more
The Enchanters by James Ellroy
Category: Fiction
Fan favourite Freddy Otash is at large once more, tasked with running the cover-up on Marilyn Monroe's life and death. Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's look ...Show more
This Storm by James Ellroy
Category: Fiction
'Ellroy writes with raw power ... undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time' THE TIMES. 'a tangled fever-dream ... Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA' SUNDAY TIMES. A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pou ...Show more
White Jazz (#4 L.A. Quartet) by James Ellroy
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: L.A. Quartet
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, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect.