LAPD '53
Ellroy, James / Los Angeles Police Museum
James Ellroy, the undisputed master and artist of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to expose the lurid underside of LA in the mid 1950s. After combing through the photo archives of the LA Police Museum, he discovered that 1953 featured the most unusual and striking imagery, by far, and was inspired to write 25, 000 words of text that illuminate the crimes, the perpetrators and victims, and the controversial law e...