- Detective and mystery stories, Police corruption, Fiction, Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Dept
The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Los Angeles, 1958.
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Grave, bleak, relentless and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
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- Author
- James Ellroy
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Random House Audio, Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga, Books on Tape, Inc.
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- German, French, Polish, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780517165911
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- Detective and mystery stories
- Police corruption
- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Dept
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Dept.
- California, fiction
- Los angeles (calif.), fiction
- Klein, david (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- Exley, ed (fictitious character), fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department
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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