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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. |
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories | 978-0-307-27879-1 (0-307-27879-4) | June 2007 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction | 978-1-4000-9530-8 (1-4000-9530-1) | August 2006 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction | 978-1-4000-9529-2 (1-4000-9529-8) | October 2005 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction | 978-1-4000-9528-5 (1-4000-9528-X) | May 2005 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; True Crime - Murder | 978-1-4000-3287-7 (1-4000-3287-3) | September 2004 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction | 978-0-375-72740-5 (0-375-72740-X) | June 2002 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-72737-5 (0-375-72737-X) | April 2001 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-72736-8 (0-375-72736-1) | April 2001 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; True Crime - Murder | 978-0-375-70471-0 (0-375-70471-X) | January 1999 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; True Crime - Murder | 978-0-679-76205-8 (0-679-76205-1) | August 1997 | $ 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