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American Tabloidby James EllroyISBN 037572737X (0-375-72737-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Tabloid'Book summary:We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . .
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . .
Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . .
Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .
James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open. [via]More editions of American Tabloid:
Because the Nightby James EllroyISBN 0380700638 (0-380-70063-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Best American Crime Writing 2005by James Ellroy , Otto PenzlerISBN 0060815515 (0-06-081551-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Crime Writing 2005'Book summary:The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the coauthor of Freakanomics) about a high-society silver thief, and an extraordinarily memorable "ode to bar fights" written by Jonathan Miles for Men's Journal after he punched an editor at a staff party. But this year's edition includes a bonus -- an original essay by James Ellroy detailing his fascination with Joseph Wambaugh and how it fed his obsession with crime -- even to the point of selling his own blood to buy Wambaugh's books. Smart, entertaining, and controversial, The Best American Crime Writing is an essential edition to any crime enthusiast's bookshelf.
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The Big Nowhereby James EllroyISBN 0099649209 (0-09-964920-9)
Softcover, Random House
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The Black Dahliaby James EllroyISBN 0099419335 (0-09-941933-5)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Dahlia'Book summary:On 11th January, 1947 in Los Angeles, a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life. [via]
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Hardcover, Random House - The Black Dahlia: ISBN 009949258X (0-09-949258-X)
Hardcover, Random House - The Black Dahlia: ISBN 0099508516 (0-09-950851-6)
Hardcover, Random House - The Black Dahlia: ISBN 0099419335 (0-09-941933-5)
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The Black Dahlia Sdoby James EllroyISBN 009950992X (0-09-950992-X)
Softcover, Random House
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Blood on the Moonby James EllroyISBN 009961670X (0-09-961670-X)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood on the Moon'Book summary:Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can-t stand music, or any loud sounds. He-s got a beautiful wife, but he can-t get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He-s a thinking man-s cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there-s something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. To solve the case, Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer. [via]
Cold 6000 Headerby James EllroyISBN 0099435020 (0-09-943502-0)
Softcover, Random House
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The Cold Six Thousandby James EllroyISBN 037572740X (0-375-72740-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Crime Waveby James EllroyISBN 037570471X (0-375-70471-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime Wave'Book summary:You wouldn't expect slick GQ to perform the greatest magazine service to hard-boiled crime writing since the heyday of Black Mask, but the evidence is before your eyes: Crime Wave, James Ellroy's collected GQ works circa 1993-99.
Though Crime Wave contains two stories in the exhilaratingly sleazy voice of the fictitious scandal rag Hush-Hush, and the novella-length "Hollywood Shakedown," a tale of sex, drugs, and murder starring '50s crooner-accordionist Dick Contino, the book is predominantly nonfiction. There's one flavorful piece, "Bad Boys in Tinseltown," about the day in 1967 when Ellroy--then a speed freak who broke into fancy houses to steal stuff and sniff women's underwear--read an article by Curtis Hanson raving about Bonnie and Clyde and was inspired. Then Ellroy flashes forward to 1996, when he visits Hanson as he directs the triumphant film version of L.A. Confidential.
GQ talked Ellroy into writing about the event that made him a maniac, and then an obsessive writer: his dissolute mother's unsolved murder in 1958, when he was 10. His investigation of her death began with the chilling GQ article "My Mother's Killer," which grew into the book My Dark Places. (If you haven't heard Ellroy read it on audiotape, you haven't shivered.) His investigation of another woman's murder, "Body Dumps," is in some ways better, because there's a suspect to eviscerate in prose. "Sex, Glitz, and Greed," written about O.J. during the trial, is an odd fit in this collection, but when Ellroy is on his own turf--L.A.'s seamy, undead past--nobody can touch him. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Dain Curse, the Glass Key and Selected Storiesby Dashiell Hammett, James EllroyISBN 0307266699 (0-307-26669-9)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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Dick Contino's Blues and Other Storiesby James EllroyISBN 0099410117 (0-09-941011-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dick Contino's Blues and Other Stories'Book summary:Dick Contino - 50s accordian player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam. meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles...a killer who is closer to Contino than he suspects - a killer who wants in on the kidnap - for real...Plus five previously unpublished short stories. [via]
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Hollywood Nocturnesby James EllroyISBN 0307278794 (0-307-27879-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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L. A. Confidentialby James EllroyISBN 0099255081 (0-09-925508-1)
Softcover, Random House
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L. A. Confidential Reading Guideby James EllroyISBN 0099434962 (0-09-943496-2)
Softcover, Random House
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Murder and Mayhemby James EllroyISBN 0099193612 (0-09-919361-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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My Dark Places Header Expby James EllroyISBN 0099257394 (0-09-925739-4)
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Police Gazetteby James EllroyISBN 009989310X (0-09-989310-X)
Softcover, Random House
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Starkby Edward Bunker, Steele, Jennifer (AFT), James EllroyISBN 0312374941 (0-312-37494-1)
Hardcover, Minotaur Books
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Suicide Hillby James EllroyISBN 0099498308 (0-09-949830-8)
Softcover, Random House
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White Jazzby James EllroyISBN 0375727361 (0-375-72736-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Jazz'Book summary: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, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time.
Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.
Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering. [via]
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