James Ellroy Books

This novel is set in Los Angeles, the city of angels that has become the city of the Angel of Death. It is about communist witch-hunts and about insanely violent killings which are terrorising the community.

A novel of the Kennedy era, portraying the president in a far from flattering light. There are three protagonists: a CIA agent who pimps for JFK, another agent who trains anti-Castro rebels, and a lawyer who is a Mafia hunter. Through their eyes are seen the conflicting interests of the Kennedys, the director of the FBI, organized crime, organized labor, Castro and Cuban exiles.

It is Christmas, 1951, Los Angeles. A city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals, six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers

Foreword by Ralph Rugoff. Texts by James Ellroy, Ralph Rugoff, Alexandra Schwartz, Bruce Wagner and Ulrich Wilmes. Interview by Kristine McKenna Ed Ruscha ist einer der einflussreichsten Künstler der Gegenwart und hat einige der bekanntesten Bilder unserer Zeit gemalt und sich dennoch ein gewisses Misstrauen gegenüber der klassischen Malerei bewahrt. Er wusste ständig die Mittel und Wege des klassischen Malprozesses zu umgehen. Es gab Zeiten, in denen er kaum oder gar nicht gemalt hat, wie in den Jahren 1969–1981. Jede Art von Etikettierung der Pop Art oder Konzeptkunst lehnte er ab, obwohl er beiden Stilrichtungen wichtige Impulse gegeben hat. Der Katalog zeigt bedeutende Beispiele aus allen Schaffensperioden: Die großen, querformatigen Bilder der Standard Oil Tankstellen, die Schatten, Silhouetten und Segelschiffe, die des historischen Zugs, der Pioniere nach Westen des amerikansichen Kontinents, Präriewagen, Pferden, Kakteen und Koyoten. Viele jüngere Künstler schreiben seinen Fotobüchern der 1960er Jahre sowie seinen Zeichnungen und Gemälden bedeutenden Einfluss auf ihr Werk zu.

Nominated for the Folio Prize It is December 6 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans âe" but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police. Heâe(tm)s superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith âe" Irish émigré, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm centre that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls âe" comrades, rivals, lovers, historyâe(tm)s pawns. Perfidia is a novel of astonishments. It is World War II as you have never seen it, and Los Angeles as James Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of Americaâe(tm)s ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself. It is a great American novel.

"L.A. is a city where it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad. At Central Police Station, Christmas 1951, cops beat up six suspects. This will change the careers of the three LAPD detectives involved"--http://trove.nla.gov.au

A young Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow, Jr. travels through the 1960s, from JFK's assassination to Vietnam, unaware that J. Edgar Hoover is the one pulling the strings.

From the widely acclaimed author of" L.A. Confidential" comes the absorbing story of three man caught in a massive web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. ""The Big Nowhere" "makes you feel as if you are really in the Hollywood of 1950".--"The Wall Street Journal".

In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother - and himself. In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer - author of American Tabloid and White Jazz - tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten - and to reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is an epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.

Best-selling crime fiction author James Ellroy returns with the fourth in his LA Quartet.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.

Krimi. A political noir tale set during the summer of 1968 in which the lives of three men collide in the pursuit of the leftist shadow figure known as the Red Goddess Joan

Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man. This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.

Mysterious Press presents three classic novels--"Blood on the Moon, Because the Night", and "Suicide Hill"--in one hardcover edition from the author of "L.A. Confidential".

Los Angeles, 1th January 1947: 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 helf. 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. The first part of Ellroy's crime fiction masterwork, the LA Quartet, and based around a real murder case, The Black Dahlia pulses with violence, darkness and brutality. It is crime writing at its most powerful.

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.

Joe caught Klein flush in the stomach and ripped upward with both hands. Blood spurted from his mouth... Suicide Hill. At first, it was almost a game. But it turned into an orgy of violence, rape and insane revenge. Investigating is Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins. But what Hopkins doesn't know is that this time, the enemy is within.

A stunning tale of dangerous ambition, police corruption, deception, betrayal, and serial murder in 1950s Los Angeles from one of the most original voices in noir fiction. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp." From the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning's police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims. Sublimely, he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush magazine. And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood. Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.

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.

Los Angeles, August 4, 1962. Amid a sweltering heat wave, Marilyn Monroe overdoses, and a B-movie starlet is kidnapped, prompting an overzealous response from the LAPD. Chief Bill Parker seeks revenge, eyeing the Monroe case as a lucrative opportunity, and enlists the help of Freddy Otash. A tainted ex-cop and defrocked private eye, Freddy is a dope fiend and freelance extortionist who lives by the motto "Opportunity is Love." As he delves into the intertwined mysteries of Monroe's death and the kidnapping, he confronts the dark underbelly of Hollywood and the façade of Camelot surrounding the Kennedys. Freddy's journey is one of desperation and madness, as he navigates a nightmarish L.A. that he helped shape, grappling with his own complicity and yearning for genuine connection. Set against the backdrop of the explosive Sixties, the narrative unfolds with a blend of humor and psychological depth, delivering a thrilling exploration of crime and morality. This work stands as a testament to Ellroy's unique voice, blending vivid imagery and gripping storytelling in a way that redefines the American crime novel.

A botched liquor store heist resulting in three deaths and the disappearance of a heroic cop sets the stage for a gripping investigation. Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant yet troubled L.A. cop, uncovers a chilling connection that points to a serial killer targeting the innocent. This intense narrative, crafted by a master of L.A. noir, explores the harrowing confrontation between a dedicated officer and a relentless criminal in a high-stakes battle for survival.

The bestselling author of "My Dark Places" and "L.A. Confidential" returns with a new collection of flash-lit scenes from America's capital of kink--Los Angeles.

"From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)--a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain Smith and a budding war profiteer. He's shacked up with Claire De Haven in Baja, Mexico, and spends his time sniffing out fifth column elements and hunting down a missing Japanese Naval Attache. Hideo Ashida is cashing LAPD paychecks and working in the crime lab, but he knows he can't avoid internment forever. Newly arrived Navy Lieutenant Joan Conville winds up in jail accused of vehicular homicide, but Captain William H. Parker squashes the charges and puts her on Ashida's team. Elmer Jackson, who is assigned to the alien squad and to bodyguard Ashida, begins to develop an obsession with Kay Lake, the unconsummated object of Captain Parker's desire. Now, Conville and Ashida become obsessed with finding the identity of a body discovered in a mudslide. It's a murder victim linked to an unsolved gold heist from '31, and they want the gold. And things really heat up when two detectives are found murdered in a notorious dope fiend hang-out"-- Provided by publisher

Set in the gritty underbelly of 1950s Los Angeles, this novel explores the life of Freddy Otash, a notorious Hollywood fixer known for his ruthless manipulation of the entertainment industry. Blending fact with fiction, it delves into the scandalous world of celebrity gossip and the dark secrets behind the pages of Confidential magazine, highlighting the moral ambiguities and power struggles within Tinseltown. The narrative captures the essence of noir, showcasing the seductive allure and perilous nature of fame.

From “one of the great American writers of our time” (Los Angeles Times Book Review): a raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of his novels.The year was 1958. James Ellroy was ten years old. His mother, Jean Hilliker, had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband. She gave her son a choice: live with his father or her. He chose his father, and Jean—“half gassed”—attacked him. He wished her dead. Three months later, she was murdered.Ellroy writes, “I owe her for every true thing that I am. I must remove the malediction I have placed on her and on myself,” and in The Hilliker Curse, he narrates his quest for “atonement in women.” He unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, a nervous breakdown and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her. It is a layered narrative of time and place, emotion and insight, sexuality and spiritual quest. And all of it is reported with gut-wrenching and heart-rending candor.A brilliant and soul-baring revelation of self—and unlike any memoir you have ever read.

Freddy Otash hat eine Verabredung mit dem Tod! Los Angeles im August 1962: Die Stadt leidet unter einer Hitzewelle. Marilyn Monroe wird tot aufgefunden. Ein halbwegs bekanntes Filmsternchen entführt. Das LAPD schaltet auf Angriff: Kann Chief Bill Parker aus Marilyns Tod Kapital schlagen? Der legendäre Schnüffler Freddy Otash soll ihm Informationen beschaffen. Der unehrenhaft entlassene Ex-Cop ist schmierig und korrupt. Doch er ist der Richtige für den Job. Freddy kämpft sich durch einen menschlichen Dschungel, wo niemand will, dass die Wahrheit ans Licht kommt. Er nimmt sich auch Jack und Bobby Kennedy vor und mit ihnen gleich das ganze Weiße Haus. Und schließlich entlarvt er Marilyn Monroes letztes Spiel, in einem albtraumartigen Los Angeles, das er mit erschaffen hat und das ihn jetzt mit sich selbst konfrontiert: mit seiner Komplizenschaft und seinem Wahn. »Ellroy gibt alles in diesem Buch, beim Lesen ist man von einer Art Fieber befallen.« Los Angeles Times »Dieser Roman strotzt vor Leben und atmet einen Hauch von Verfall.« The Washington Post »Es ist schlicht unmöglich, diesen Roman aus der Hand zu legen.« Daily Mail

Non si muovono certo in un mondo di illusioni Lee e Dwight, poliziotti, pugili, amici nonostante tutto. Eppure il pericolo più grave per loro non arriva dalla folla di relitti umani e delinquenti che li circondano, né dalla violenza e dalla corruzione di Los Angeles, né da Kay, la donna da cui entrambi sono attratti ma che non li divide né li fa sentire rivali. E' un orrido delitto a destabilizzarli, ribaltando in modo definitivo la loro vita: il massacro di Elizabeth Short, che i giornali si affrettano a battezzare Dalia Nera. E' una prostituta a tempo perso, una vittima conseziente dello show business e soprattutto di se stessa, una ragazza leggera, allegra, imprudente.

This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one march night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.

„Ich liebe es, über die amerikanische Geschichte nachzudenken, über die Geschichte L.A.s nachzudenken. Ich liebe es, über Verbrechen zu brüten.“ James Ellroy Der unumstrittene Meister der Kriminalliteratur hat sich mit dem Los Angeles Police Museum zusammengetan, um ein erstaunliches Werk über das L.A. des Jahres 1953 zu verfassen. Beim Durchforsten des Museumsarchivs entdeckte Ellroy, dass dieses Jahr zahlreiche ungewöhnliche Bilder hervorgebracht hat und hat zu einigen von ihnen kurze Texte geschrieben, in denen er die Verbrechen und die Arbeit der Polizeit beleuchtet: Die Stadt der Engel, ein Hexenkessel vor dem Herrn!

»Ellroy ist der wohl wahnsinnigste unter den lebenden Dichtern und Triebtätern der amerikanischen Literatur.« Süddeutsche Zeitung Fritz Brown, ein Kalifornier deutscher Abstammung, ist nur dem Namen nach Privatdetektiv, denn der ehemalige Cop und Alkoholiker hat noch nie in Kriminalfällen ermittelt. Seine Detektei betreibt er aus Abschreibungsgründen. Als er eines Tages eher zufällig auf einen langen zurückliegenden Korruptionsskandal stößt, nimmt er die Herausforderung an: Der Fall wird für ihn zu einem Rachefeldzug für sein eigenes, verpfuschtes Leben.

Un romanzo feroce, epico, dallo stile vertiginoso e appassionante. Un capolavoro spietato. Dallas, 22 novembre 1963. John Fitzgerald Kennedy viene assassinato: esplode il cuore del Sogno Americano. Un giovane poliziotto di Las Vegas, Wayne Tedrow Junior, arriva a Dallas con 6000 dollari in contanti e un odioso compito da svolgere: si troverà coinvolto nei retroscena criminali della vita pubblica americana. Sei pezzi da mille inizia dove terminava American Tabloid : dall'attentato a Kennedy e dal complotto per insabbiarlo. James Ellroy allaccia il suo racconto ai grandi eventi di quegli anni: il movimento per i diritti civili, Martin Luther King, la tragica morte dei fratelli Kennedy, l'escalation dello sforzo bellico in Vietnam. I personaggi di finzione si mescolano a quelli reali, le grandi figure dell'epoca si affiancano a sbirri, assassini, malviventi e provocatori, i fili della storia vera e inventata convergono nell'Incubo Americano.

A dieci anni Thomas Bishop viene internato in una clinica psichiatrica dopo aver ucciso la madre che lo seviziava da sempre. Quindici anni dopo, evade dall'istituto e dà inizio a una fuga sanguinaria sul cui cammino sono ancora le donne a cadere. Un omicidio, due, poi saranno decine; Bishop tortura e uccide spostandosi da Las Vegas a Chicago, a New York. Un personaggio infero ma straordinariamente umano, del quale Shane Stevens è cronista implacabile raccontandone nel dettaglio l'infanzia e gli anni di reclusione, le quotidiane strategie di sopravvivenza e la ferocia omicida. Ne emerge un indimenticabile ritratto della follia, di quel concatenarsi di storie, incontri o mancati incontri che conducono un uomo a cedere alla violenza, all'orrore, alla distruzione dell'altro e di sé. E accanto a questa ombra che ferisce a morte le grandi metropoli del continente, emerge il volto oscuro dell'America degli anni Settanta, restituito attraverso il racconto di una caccia all'uomo che coinvolgerà tutti, poliziotti e giudici, politici e giornalisti, beffati dall'astuzia dell'assassino e incatenati, loro malgrado, alla sua testarda, deviata umanità.

Erzählungen von dem Meister der untergründigen Spannung und des kalten, melancholischen Realismus – ein Muss für Ellroy-Fans In seinen Erzählungen entlarvt Ellroy die Nachtseiten des glamourösen Hollywood. In einer Atmosphäre, durch die der Geist der fünfziger Jahre weht, zeichnet er Lebensläufe und Gestalten, die ihre Illusionen längst verloren haben und dennoch an ihrer Version des amerikanischen Traums festhalten.

Le storie di true crime hanno un fascino irresistibile, spingendoci a esplorare un cuore di tenebra che ci circonda. Questo libro presenta quindici racconti di crimine reale, scritti da celebri giornalisti investigativi e selezionati da James Ellroy. La potenza di queste narrazioni risiede nella straordinaria qualità degli autori e nella diversità dei temi trattati. Peter Landesman indaga sulla schiavitù sessuale di migliaia di ragazze arrivate negli Stati Uniti con false promesse di lavoro e un futuro migliore. David Grann racconta la strana morte di un fan di Sherlock Holmes, un evento che sembra uscito da un romanzo di Conan Doyle. Jeff Dietz accompagna un agente dell'FBI lungo il confine tra Texas e Messico, cercando le tracce degli immigrati clandestini. Inoltre, troviamo le riflessioni di Nancy Gibb scritte a meno di trenta ore dall'attacco alle Torri Gemelle, e l'analisi di Clive Thompson sui rischi degli allegati e-mail. Il volume si chiude con un racconto di Ellroy, che esplora l'influenza di Joseph Wambaugh sulla sua scrittura.

El agente literario Molton Alpert ha anunciado que representara a martin Michael Plunkett, condenado por varios asesinatos y conocido como el Verdugo Sexual, en la venta de sus memorias autobiograficas, un relato que, segun Alperte, "no se calla nada y esta destinado a recibir la consideracion de texto clasico sobre la mente criminal". Martin Michael Plunkett es la oscura combinacion de un intelecto privilegiado, un alma despiadada y un corazon maligno. Su infancia se vio sacudida por sueños terribles y enrevesadas fantasias. Pronto descubre el alivio que le supone la vision, el sabor y el tacto de la sangre tibia. Y se rinde a los salvajes y terribles impulsos que le revelan que su verdadera vocacion es ser un asesino perfecto. Asi traza un sangriento reguero a lo largo de las carreteras de Estados Unidos, de costa a costa. Parece que no hay motivos, y es que Martin Plankett mata solo por placer. Su brillante y retorcida mente es un espeluznante lugar sin explotar. Ahora el mismo se encargara de confesar todo el horror. Su locura refleja la locura de una nacion. El asesino esta en la carretera.

'Gedumpt' vertelt opnieuw het verhaal van een moord op een jonge vrouw: Betty Jean Scales. Het is het adembenemende relaas van twee mannen, een schrijver en een detective, in hun hongerige zoektocht naar gerechtigheid. CPNB Maand van het spannende boek 1998.

In "Blutschatten" wird die Geschichte der Jagd nach einem irrsinnigen Mörder im Hollywood der 1950er Jahre erzählt. Der Roman beleuchtet die Verstrickungen und Erlösung dreier gefährlicher Männer vor dem Hintergrund der Kommunistenverfolgung in der Traumfabrik.

Das schockierende Psychogramm eines Serienmörders Marty Plunkett war ein seltsamer Junge: ein Träumer - hochbegabt und eigenbrötlerisch. Doch im Kopf dieses Jungen ging Schreckliches vor ... So unglaublich es auch scheinen mag: Nichts in diesem Buch über die verdunkelte Seele eines Killers ist der bloßen Fantasie entsprungen, denn das Buch basiert auf gründlichen Recherchen mehrerer authentischer Kriminalfälle. „Ellroy ist ein amerikanisches Phänomen, eine Kultgestalt zwischen Thomas Pynchon und Jeff Koons.“ Die Zeit „Ellroy ist der wohl wahnsinnigste unter den lebenden Dichtern und Triebtätern der amerikanischen Literatur.“ Süddeutsche Zeitung „Er schreibt die blutigsten Krimis Amerikas.“ Zeit-Magazin „Anarchisch kaputt, sexbesessen und mit einem unheimlichen Gespür für alles Pathologische, Zerstörerische ... Aus seinen Büchern weht der Wind des Bösen.“ Bücherjournal „Ellroy ist der wichtigste zeitgenössische Kriminalautor... seine Romane beginnen da, wo die Recherchen der Polizei nicht mehr weiterführen, und wenn sie enden, sind die Morde zwar geklärt, aber nichts wird dadurch besser.“ Der Spiegel „Einer der größten amerikanischen Autoren aller Zeiten.“ L.A. Times

„Ich liebe es, über die amerikanische Geschichte nachzudenken, über die Geschichte L.A.s nachzudenken. Ich liebe es, über Verbrechen zu brüten.“ James Ellroy In drei Novellen sowie Kurzgeschichten und Artikeln richtet James Ellroy sein Spotlight auf L.A. Einiges ist erfunden, aber einiges erscheint so wahr, daß es als Beweis vor Gericht durchgehen könnte. Ellroy schreibt über seinen Vater, die Todesstrafe, die Justiz und die Opfer von vierzig Jahre zurückliegenden Verbrechen.