On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest...

In this enthralling debut, James Ellroy, one of crime fiction\'s greatest writers, introduces the hyperreal L.A. we\'ve come to know from his later work—a land of vice, corruption, and, in this case, golf.\r\n\r\nFritz Brown is a...

Troubled Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of the L.A.P.D. finds two apparently disparate cases becoming one and centering on the fiendish psychiatrist, Doctor John the Night Tripper, as the two square off in a life or death struggle. ...

James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is film-noir crime fiction akin to Chinatown,Hollywood Babylon, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. IIt's about threetortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D.: Ed Exley, the clean-cut cop ...

America's master of noir delivers his masterpiece, a rip-roaring, devilishly wild ride through the bloody end of the 1960's. It's dark baby, and hot hot hot. Martin Luther King assassinated. Robert Kennedy assassinated. Los Angeles, ...

The author of The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential presents a gritty crime novel set in 1950s Los Angeles, the second installment of his acclaimed L.A. Quartet series, about three very different men who become trapped in a maze of d...

In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit's l...

A suspenseful noir anthology from the best-selling author of L.A. Confidential presents a range of journalistic pieces in which he examines true crimes and short stories that reveal the dark underbelly of the City of Angels. Original....

The best-selling author of L.A. Confidential and My Dark Places returns to the city of angels to present fourteen pieces of fiction and nonfiction that includes "Balls to the Wall," a reflection on boxing; the autobiographic...

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of the LAPD, fueled by a desire to protect innocence, confronts a murderer who is driven by the same forces when he investigates a series of murders of young women in the Los Angeles area. Reprint. 15,...

In James Ellroy\'s riveting second novel, an ambitious beat cop is hot on the trail of a serial killer who frequents L.A. dive bars and preys on the fallen women he finds there.\r\n\r\nLos Angeles, 1951. For officer Fred Underhill, th...

Set in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959, Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER     AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARLos Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hatred grip the city.  The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men an...

James Ellroy and Otto Penzler mined the past century to find this treasure trove of thirty-nine stories. From noir's twenties-era infancy come gems like James M. Cain's "Pastorale," and its postwar heyday boasts giants like ...

January '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man ...

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...

From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidentialmagazine. Freddy Otash was the man in th...