- Social life and customs, Police, Fiction, American Detective and mystery stories
Collection of crime stories, some fiction, some nonfiction.
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Grave, bleak, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- James Ellroy
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 395
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Arrow Books Ltd, Century
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780712661379
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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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