An investigation into the murder of crime writer, James Ellroy's mother. She was murdered in 1958 and the case was never solved, leaving her son to embark...
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Set in America in 1958, this is a story of three men beneath the glossy surface of power, allied to the makers and shakers of the era. As the festering...
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From the author of "L.A. Confidential." With carnal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, Martin Michael Plunkett comes to...
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James Ellroy is acknowledged as one of America's greatest writers. As well as his novels, he is a regular contributor to "GQ" magazine in the States. This...
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Set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, this is the story of Frederick Underhill's dream to become the most celebrated detective of all time. The death of a lonely...
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A collection of Ellroy's true stories, including the only two unsolved murder cases on police file in the author's home town in California. Original novellas,...
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An annual collection of cutting-edge crime writing from established names and total newcomers. This collection includes stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Michael...
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Dick Contino, a 50s accordion player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the...
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A single-volume edition of three of the novels featuring Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of Los Angeles. The first involves the apparently random killings...
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A hardcover compendium of three detective novels by the author of L.A.
Confidential, the basis of the motion picture, includes Blood on the Moon,
Because...
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Los Angeles is 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...
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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...
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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....
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Dallas, November '63 - Wayne Tedrow Jr, a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got 6000 in cash and no idea he is about to plunge...
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In this crime novel, there is a man on the loose in America. A man who kills for the sheer pleasure of spilling blood. A man who rearranges the mutilated...
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A reissue of Ellroy's first novel. This is the story of Fritz Brown's nightmare, played out in the underworld of golf caddies, arson and incest, against...
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He picks up women like someone picking up stones. Hunting him is a man. What happened to him once, when he was a boy, could have made him into a killer....
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Los Angeles, in 1958 is a city on the make. It is a boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein is in turn a lawyer, bagman,...
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