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Ellroy, James was born on March 4, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Armand and Geneva Odelia (Hillaker) Ellroy.
(The Black Dahlia, the Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and ...)
The Black Dahlia, the Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz are called L.A. Tetralogy. The Big Nowhere is the second part of the tetralogy and serves as a bridging section of the entire series. Key characters come to stage here, where Ellroy also pushes forward his depiction of peoples dark desires and twisted human nature.
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(The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candi...)
The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir—as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels—about his obsessive search for “atonement in women.” The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted after his mother and “summoned her dead.” She was murdered three months later. The Hilliker Curse is a predator’s confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de cœur. James Ellroy unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her. A layered narrative of time and place, emotion and insight, sexuality and spiritual quest, The Hilliker Curse is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. It is unlike any memoir you have ever read.
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(The Big Nowhere: In 1950s LA three men are drawn into the...)
The Big Nowhere: In 1950s LA three men are drawn into the shadow of communist witch hunts and violent killings that force each one to confront his own personal darkness. But none is prepared for the maelstrom that awaits them. LA Confidential: LA Christmas 1951. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three LAD cops involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they built their corrupt and voilent careers. White Jazz: LAPD Lieutenant Dave Klein made the mean streets he works on mean. But now the FBI are out to get the cops who murder, bribe and beat to serve their corrupt careers and Klein is hung out as bait. Big fish leap at his throat - racketeers, narcotic kings and scum with skeletons they would kill to keep hidden. Three of the most epic and powerful crime novels ever written, this volume is an explosive journey through the dark side of recent American history, and crime writing at its best.
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(On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beaut...)
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total madness.
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(Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting th...)
Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch–his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen finds himself playing both ends against the middle, all for a murderously magnificent moll. This is L.A., Ellroy style–corrupt cops, goons with guns, rattling roadsters–and all in the staccato rhythm of the streets. Hollywood Nocturnes shows us the seedy side of glamorous Hollywood, laid out like a corpse in the morgue.
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(Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and...)
Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff's deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they're his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.'s Bureau brass. He's climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks-bagman, ex-Narco goon, and pimp for Howard Hughes-is fighting communism for the money. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare.
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(A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A ...)
A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information–no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to one horrifying conclusion--a killer is on the loose and preying on his city. From the master of L.A. noir comes this beautiful and brutal tale of a cop and a criminal squared off in a life and death struggle.
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(Shares case information, articles, and recently discovere...)
Shares case information, articles, and recently discovered crime photos from the LAPD archives for dramatic cases that took place between the 1930s and 1960s, in a compilation that includes information related to such crimes as the Black Dahlia slaying, the Onion Field murder, and the deaths of "The
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(Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can’t stand music, or an...)
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.
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(Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns...)
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.
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("Suicide Hill" is the third volume in the saga of Sergean...)
"Suicide Hill" is the third volume in the saga of Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, whose previous exploits were chronicled in "Blood on the Moon" and "Because the Night." In disgrace after a badly handled arrest in New Orleans, Hopkins is assigned as liaison officer to an FBI investigation of a series of diabolical and clever bank robberies. Three men have done their homework: they choose bank managers who are having affairs, kidnap their girlfriends, and force the managers to open the banks early . . . Hopkins' insights into the criminal mind bear fruit when the bank robbers turn violent and he finds himself with a bit of information he would just as soon not have - information about police corruption that reaches into the office of his sworn enemy Fred Gaffney, head of the Internal Affairs Division. Ridding the Department of Hopkins is the culmination of years of effort on Gaffney's part: with the information Hopkins has uncovered though. Gaffney's career - and his very life - will be put in jeopardy.
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(We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidentia...)
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.
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("Amerika Asla Masum Olmadi" James Ellroy'un 1995 Time Yil...)
"Amerika Asla Masum Olmadi" James Ellroy'un 1995 Time Yilin Romani Odulu'nu alan kult kitabi "American Tabloid" nihayet Turkce'de! Kennedy nasil baskan oldu, kimler tarafindan, nicin olduruldu? Derin devletin kirli camasirlari sayfalari dolduruyor. ABD tarihinin en onemli donemlerinden birini masaya yatiran Ellroy, hardcore uslubuyla okurlari buyuleyecek.
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(Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant ho...)
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department and one of its most troubled. In his obsessive mission to protect the innocent, there is no line he won’t cross. Estranged from his wife and daughters and on the verge of being drummed out of the department for his transgressions, Hopkins is assigned to investigate a series of bloody bank robberies. As the violence escalates and the case becomes ever more vicious, Hopkins will be forced to cross the line once again to stop a maniac on a murder binge.
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(On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beaut...)
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total madness.
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( Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- th...)
Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- the possessor of a genius intellect, a pitiless soul of brushed steel, and a heart of blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, he comes to the bay city of San Francisco -- and submits to savage and terrible impulses that reveal to him his true vocation as a pure and perfect murderer. And so begins his decade of discovery and terror, as he cuts a bloody swath across the full length of a land, ingeniously exploiting and feeding upon a society's obsessions. As he maneuvers deftly through a seamy world of drugs, flesh, and perversions, the media will call him many things -- but Martin Plunkett's real name is Death. His brilliant, twisted mind is a horriying place to explore. His madness reflects a nation's own. The killer is on the road. And there's nowhere in America to hide.
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("Malgré son poids, American tabloid tient de l''épure tan...)
"Malgré son poids, American tabloid tient de l''épure tant il semble que l''auteur ait taillé à la serpe dans un manuscrit que l''on imagine colossal. Plein comme un oeuf, American tabloid requiert une attention de tous les instants : une simple ligne parcourue d''un oeil distrait, et c''est une conspiration, un retournement de veste ou un cadavre qui risquent d''échapper au lecteur. Il n''en fallait pas moins pour passer au scalpel les mille jours de l''administration Kennedy et dresser le tableau dantesque des cinq ans qui courent de novembre 1958 au 22 novembre 1963 à Dallas..." - Bruno Gendre, Libération
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Ellroy, James was born on March 4, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Armand and Geneva Odelia (Hillaker) Ellroy.
(Shares case information, articles, and recently discovere...)
("Amerika Asla Masum Olmadi" James Ellroy'un 1995 Time Yil...)
(1953-1983: 30 years of American society, from the hope of...)
(Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles ...)
(In one of Ellroy's most fascinating and grueling novels, ...)
(The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candi...)
(The Big Nowhere: In 1950s LA three men are drawn into the...)
(We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidentia...)
(LAPD investigators Bucky Bleichart and Lee Blanchard find...)
("Suicide Hill" is the third volume in the saga of Sergean...)
( Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- th...)
("Malgré son poids, American tabloid tient de l''épure tan...)
(Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant ho...)
(On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beaut...)
(On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beaut...)
(Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and...)
(Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can’t stand music, or an...)
(Three citizens are butchered during a liquor store holdup...)
(A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A ...)
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(First Avon Books printing, April 1987. Paperback.)
(The Black Dahlia, the Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and ...)
(White Jazz by James Ellroy. Vintage Books,1992)
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(Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns...)
(Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting th...)
Married Mary Doherty, 1988.