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Benvenuti nel mondo di Freddy Otash: ex sbirro della omicidi e rapine non proprio inappuntabile, investigatore privato che non si tira indietro davanti a nulla, informatore del tabloid scandalistico "Confidential", re incontrastato del ricatto e dell'estorsione ai danni di produttori, divi, starlet e di chiunque conti qualcosa nella Mecca del cinema. Ormai anziano e male in arnese, decide di raccontare la sua vita a uno scrittore mezzo matto d...

Los Angeles 1951 - Frederick Underhill, an ambitious rookie of the Los Angeles Police Department, want to become the most celebrated detective of his time. But instead of the celebrity status he was hoping for, Underhill finds himself on the edge of the abyss, his whole life and future about to take a fall.

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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 hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there's something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of wome...

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Three citizens are butchered during a liquor store holdup. An unstable veteran cop vanishes without a trace. Nothing connects these events except for a nagging hunch in the back of Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins' brain--a sinister foreboding that will lead him through the sin-and-sleaze playground of nighttime LA on the trail of a psycho psychiatrist with a talent for terror and mind-control. His gore-soaked journey through hell will plunge ...

Fantastic work." - James Ellroy über die Graphic Novel 1947 wurde auf einem unbebauten Grundstück in L. A. eine weibliche Leiche gefunden, nackt und bestialisch zugerichtet. Es handelte sich um Elizabeth Short, genannt die Schwarze Dahlie. Sie war aus der Provinz nach Hollywood gekommen, den amerikanischen Traum von Geld und Glamour im Herzen. James Ellroys Roman über die Ermittlungen des LAPD liefert ein Sittenbild der 1940er-Jahre in den U...

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Ellroy compendium, containing "The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential" and "White Jazz".

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARLos Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hatred grip the city. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. LAPD captain William H. Parker is superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith-Irish émigré, ex-IRA killer, fledgling...

From the widely acclaimed author of" L.A. Confidential" comes the absorbing story of three man caught in a massive web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. "The Big Nowhere" "makes you feel as if you are really in the Hollywood of 1950".--"The Wall Street Journal".

L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, and offers no mercy, grants no survivors.