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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 San Francisco--and submits to savage and terrible impulses that reveal to him his true vocation as a pure and perfect murderer. Online feature.

»Einer der größten amerikanischen Autoren aller Zeiten.« LA Times 6. Dezember 1941: Es ist der Vorabend des Angriffs der Japaner auf Pearl Harbor. Amerika steht vor dem Kriegseintritt. In Los Angeles wird eine japanische Familie tot aufgefunden. War es Mord oder ein ritueller Selbstmord? Die Ermittlungen bringen vier Menschen zusammen: Einen brillanten Forensiker, japanisch-amerikanischer Abstammung, eine junge Frau, von einer unbändigen Ab...

Los Angeles, 1951: Ausgerechnet am Weihnachtsabend überfallen Unbekannte das Nachtcafé »The Nite Owl« und töten sämtliche Gäste und das Personal. Ed Exley, Jack Vincennes und Bud White vom Los Angeles Police Department sollen den Fall klären - doch als sich ihre Wege kreuzen, bahnt sich eine Katastrophe an: Jeder von ihnen hat seine eigene Rechnung zu begleichen ...

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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James Ellroy is acknowledged as one of America's greatest living writers. As well as his critically acclaimed novels, he is a regular contributor to GQ magazine in the States. This collection will contain sixteen of these pieces, both autobiographical and crime reportage as well as a Novella: Hollywood Fuck Pad.

Verano de 1968. Un grupo dedicado al juego clandestino se apresta a desplegarse en la Convención Demócrata de Chicago. Los militantes negros están combatiendo en el sur de Los Ángeles. Y el destino ha colocado a tres hombres en el vórtice de la Historia: Dwight Holly, el matón preferido de J. Edgar Hoover, Wayne Tedrow, ex policía y traficante de heroína, y Don Crutchfield, un joven detective privado sin escrúpulos. Sangre vagabunda es una nov...

Martin Plunkett is intelligent with homosexual tendencies, learns robbery and discovers the pleasure of perfect killing. Leaves no trace, no mistakes, doesn't act on impulse. When FBI captures him, confesses his crimes in exchange to the publication of "this autobiography. While serving four consecutive life sentences he was convicted, he writes his memoirs.

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Reissues of Ellroy's classic, dark crime novels, with brand new covers.

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'LA Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'LA Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.

As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oft outrageous "Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction" persona, James Ellroy has used interviews as a means of shaping narratives outside of his novels. Conversations with James Ellroy covers a series of interviews given by Ellroy from 1984 to 2010, in which Ellroy discusses his literary contribution and his public and private image. Born Lee Earle Ellroy in 1948, James Ellr...

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The Black Dahlia is a roman noir on an epic scale: a classic period piece that provides a startling conclusion to America's most infamous unsolved murder mystery--the murder of the beautiful young woman known as The Black Dahlia.

La Dalia Negra, obra maestra del perro diabólico de las letras norteamericanas, en edición definitiva, con una traducción actualizada y un epílogo inédito del autor.15 de enero de 1947. Los Ángeles, un solar desocupado. El cadáver de una mujer de veinticinco años, desnudo y seccionado en dos partes. El médico forense determina que ha sido torturada durante días mientras ella seguía consciente.Un periodista bautiza a la víctima como «la Dalia N...

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Webb's collection of stories that could not be presented on TV includes untold, behind-the-scenes accounts of the Black Dahlia murder, the Brenda Allen confessions, Stephen Nash's "thrill murders, " and Donald Bashor's "sleeping lady murders, " to name a few.

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Una domanda, uno schiaffo, la maledizione pronunciata nei confronti della madre da un bambino di nove anni. È l'episodio taciuto ne "I miei luoghi oscuri", il libro in cui James Ellroy riapriva il caso dell'omicidio tuttora irrisolto di Geneva Hilliker. Jean la rossa, assassinata tre mesi dopo che suo figlio ne aveva invocato la morte. Episodio cruciale dal punto di vista umano ma anche letterario, vero e proprio innesco per la vocazione narra...