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author spotlight
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were international best sellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine's Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. His novel The Cold Six Thousand was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book for 2001. Ellroy lives in Los Angeles.
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Blood's A Rover
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $28.95
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 Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $28.95
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 Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD and an
unabridged audiobook download.
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American Tabloid
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2001
Price: $16.00
We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . .
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2001
Price: $16.00
We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . .
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a... Read more >
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The Cold Six Thousand
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $15.95
In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. They are Wayne Tedrow... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $15.95
In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. They are Wayne Tedrow... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
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White Jazz
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2001
Price: $14.95
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2001
Price: $14.95
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and an
unabridged audiobook download.
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My Dark Places
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: August 19, 1997
Price: $15.95
"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: August 19, 1997
Price: $15.95
"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Destination: Morgue!
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $14.95
Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $14.95
Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Crime Wave
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 26, 1999
Price: $13.95
Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 26, 1999
Price: $13.95
Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded... Read more >
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Blood's A Rover
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $50.00
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 Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $50.00
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 Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories
Format: Hardcover, 664 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett gave us crime fiction stripped down to its most subtle and searing essentials and, at the same time, elevated to literature. The diamond-sharp prose and artfully manipulated intrigue for which he is known are on... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 664 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett gave us crime fiction stripped down to its most subtle and searing essentials and, at the same time, elevated to literature. The diamond-sharp prose and artfully manipulated intrigue for which he is known are on... Read more >
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Hollywood Nocturnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $12.95
Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch–his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $12.95
Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch–his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen... Read more >
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Suicide Hill
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $12.95
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department and one of its most troubled. In his obsessive mission to protect the innocent, there is no line he won’t cross. Estranged from his wife and daughters and on the verge of being drummed out... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $12.95
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department and one of its most troubled. In his obsessive mission to protect the innocent, there is no line he won’t cross. Estranged from his wife and daughters and on the verge of being drummed out... Read more >
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Blood on the Moon
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $13.95
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can’t stand music, or any loud sounds. He’s got a beautiful wife, but he can’t get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He’s a thinking man’s cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $13.95
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can’t stand music, or any loud sounds. He’s got a beautiful wife, but he can’t get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He’s a thinking man’s cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to... Read more >
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Because the Night
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $14.00
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 Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $14.00
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 Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to... Read more >
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The Black Dahlia
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $29.95
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.
Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard. Both are obsessed with the Dahlia–driven by... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $29.95
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.
Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard. Both are obsessed with the Dahlia–driven by... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
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Destination: Morgue!
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the... Read more >
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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My Dark Places
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $15.95
"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $15.95
"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Blood's A Rover
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $32.50
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 Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $32.50
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 Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD and a
hardcover.
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The Cold Six Thousand
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $24.95
The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid... James Ellroy's high-velocity, best-selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history. Now, in The Cold Six Thousand, his most ambitious and explosive novel yet, he puts the... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $24.95
The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid... James Ellroy's high-velocity, best-selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history. Now, in The Cold Six Thousand, his most ambitious and explosive novel yet, he puts the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Black Dahlia
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $15.00
Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled "Hillikers," read by Stephen Hoye.
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.
Caught up in the... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $15.00
Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled "Hillikers," read by Stephen Hoye.
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.
Caught up in the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD.
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White Jazz
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $9.99
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $9.99
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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L.A. Confidential
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $9.99
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 L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $9.99
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 L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and... Read more >
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White Jazz
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 5, 2007
Price: $22.50
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 5, 2007
Price: $22.50
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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