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On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her pas...

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On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history. In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to ...

La madre di James Ellroy venne assassinata in una tragica notte a El Monte quando lo scrittore aveva appena dieci anni. La trovarono dei ragazzini, riversa sulla schiena. Il coroner stabilì che era morta per asfissia dovuta a strangolamento mediante lacci. La polizia non scoprì mai chi fosse l'autore di quel brutale omicidio. Trentasei anni dopo Ellroy riapre l'indagine. Presa visione del fascicolo della polizia relativo a quel caso insoluto, ...

7 dicembre 1941. Il Giappone ha bombardato Pearl Harbor. Gli Stati Uniti sono a un passo dalla guerra e a Los Angeles scatta un'ondata di arresti. I cittadini nipponici sospettabili di alto tradimento finiscono dietro le sbarre. La bandiera dell'odio razziale sventola alta, perciò nessuno dovrebbe preoccuparsi quando i quattro membri di una famiglia giapponese vengono trovati morti dentro casa, tanto più che potrebbe trattarsi di un suicidio r...

Un filo rosso sangue lega una giovane cantante uccisa brutalmente a Hollywood negli anni '50, un giornalista senza scrupoli che sguazza negli scandali, Danny Gatchell, e il detective Rick Jenson della squadra Casi irrisolti di Los Angeles. James Ellroy torna nella città degli angeli per raccontare una scia di omicidi che insanguina la California, tra star del cinema e poliziotti corrotti, contrabbandieri messicani e topi d'appartamento, donne ...

Los Ángeles, 1951. Fred Underhill es un policía inteligente, perseverante, mujeriego y, sobre todo, ambicioso.

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 novels: a companion to My Dark Places.

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 cop to draw the heat, " and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, fr...

Text by James Ellroy, Ralph Rugoff, Alexandra Schwartz, Bruce Wagner, Ulrich Wilmes. Interview by Kristine McKenna.

Paperback edition of Ellroy's dark and powerful account of his mother's murder when he was just 10, and his attempt 38 years later to get to the bottom of the unsolved crime. A classic of crime non-fiction and a hypnotic trip into America's underworld and one man's tortured soul. Publication coincides with "The Hilliker Curse", his new memoir.

Reissues of the first two books in Ellroy's "Underworld USA" trilogy, with new jackets to tie in with the paperback of the third volume, "Blood's A Rover", which is new out this month.

Perennially popular, this anthology is a favorite of mystery buffs and general readers alike. This year Ellroy lends his talent to the editing of the series.

The bestselling author of "My Dark Places" and "L.A. Confidential" returns with a new collection of flash-lit scenes from America's capital of kink--Los Angeles.

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.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 he spent the n...

The author of The Black Dahlia presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In The Big Nowhere, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place.

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.