- Murder, World War, 1939-1945, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Fiction
Follows a post-Pearl Harbor murder of a Japanese family that entangles a brilliant Japanese-American forensic chemist, an adventurous woman, a future police chief and an arch villain.
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Grave, bleak, classical in form and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- James Ellroy
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 720
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg., Windmill Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307956996
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Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels *The Black Dahlia* (1987), *The Big Nowhere* (1988), *L.A. Confidential* (1990), *White Jazz* (1992), *American Tabloid* (1995), *The Cold Six Thousand* (2001), and *Blood's a Rover* (2009). *-- Wikipedia*
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