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The Hilliker Curse (Book)

James Ellroy (Author)

Describes the author's shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her.

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Brown's Requiem (Book)

James Ellroy (Author)

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 Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man.

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Clandestine (Book)

James Ellroy (Author)

Los Angeles 1951 - Frederick Underhill, an ambitious rookie of the Los Angeles Police Department, want to become the most celebrated detective of his time. He is also sexually promiscuous. His two drives are brought together by the slaying of Maggie Cadwallader, a lonely [...]

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The Best American Noir of the Century (Book)

James Ellroy (Author), Otto Penzler (Author), James Ellroy (Editor), Otto Penzler (Editor)

Offering the examples of literary sure things gone bad, this collection includes thirty-nine stories.

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The Best American Noir of the Century (Book)

James Ellroy (Editor), Otto Penzler (Editor)

James Ellroy and Otto Penzler mined the past century to find this treasure trove of thirty-nine stories. From noir's twenties-era infancy come gems like James M. Cain's "Pastorale," and its postwar heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter. Packing an [...]

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Big Nowhere (Book)

James Ellroy (Author), ELLROY JAMES (Author)

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 malestrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as [...]

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The Hilliker Curse (Book)

James Ellroy (Author)

. Legendary crime writer James Ellroy gives us a searing, candid memoir about his obsession with women, his related search for atonement, and his literary career. The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, [...]

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The Black Dahlia (Book)

James Ellroy (Author)

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 helf. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the [...]

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White Jazz (Book)

James Ellroy (Author)

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.

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Conversations With James Ellroy (Book)

James Ellroy (Author), Steven (EDT) Powell (Author), Steven Powell (Editor)

Conversations with the author of such acclaimed works as "American Tabloid," "L.A. Confidential" and "The Black Dahlia".

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Conversations With James Ellroy (Book)

James Ellroy (Author), Steven Powell (Author), Steven Powell (Editor)

Conversations with the author of such acclaimed works as "American Tabloid," "L.A. Confidential" and "The Black Dahlia".

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The Hilliker Curse, Audio-CD (Audio book)

James Ellroy (Author)

From the master of contemporary noir--self-proclaimed 'Demon Dog,' hailed by the LA Times as 'one of the great American writers of our time"--comes a memoir as intensely riveting as any of his works: a companion to My Dark Places.

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La Confidential (Book)

James Ellroy (Author), ELLROY JAMES (Author)

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 [...]

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Blood's A Rover (Book)

James Ellroy (Author)

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Blood's a Rover (Book)

James Ellroy (Author)

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 the dammed and the soon-to-be damned. Wayne Tedrow Jr: parricide, assassin, dope cooker, [...]

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