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This Storm

The L.A. Quartet

Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol.1

American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand

Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol. 2

Blood's a Rover

Destination: Morgue

Perfidia

Clandestine

Brown's Requiem

Because the Night

The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz

Dudley Smith Trio

Four of James Ellroy's most popular crime novels featuring the infamous Dudley Smith, which include: 'The Black Dahlia', 'The Big Nowhere', 'L.A. Confidential' and 'White Jazz'.

Classic Noir

LA Confidential

White Jazz

The first book in the classic L.A. Quartet crime series

The Black Dahlia

The Big Nowhere

My Pursuit of Women

The Hilliker Curse

The Best American Noir of the Century

My Dark Places

Blood's A Rover

American Tabloid

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Epic mashups of historical fact and filthy fantasy . . . no one does it better than Ellroy

The Times, 'Best new crime fiction for September 2023'

This entire book is one gleefully violent foul-mouthed research note. It’s vivid, gripping, surreal

No one captures the nightmare that lies behind the American dream better than the unforgettable Ellroy . . . This is the master of darkness at his incomparable best — simply impossible to put down

Nobody does crime like James Ellroy . . . One of Ellroy's best works in years

One of the great American writers of our time

Ask me to name the best living novelist who's fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid . . . and it becomes simple: James Ellroy. If insanity illuminated by highly dangerous strokes of literary lightning is your thing, then Ellroy is your man

Truly invigorating . . . demonically riveting

If you like conspiracy theories you’ll relish James Ellroy’s brutal, unbelievably hard-boiled take on the death of Marilyn Monroe

I enjoyed The Enchanters, James Ellroy's sleazy, scabrous riff on the death of Marilyn Monroe

Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. 
 
The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe's death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe's horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create - and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness.

'Nobody does crime like James Ellroy . . . One of Ellroy's best works in years' Sunday Times 
 
'This is the master of darkness at his incomparable best — simply impossible to put down' Daily Mail 
 
Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. 
 
The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe's death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe's horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create - and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness. 
 
It's the Summer of '62, baby. Freddy O.'s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. The Rolling Stones proclaim it best: We're just a shout away. 
 
The Enchanters is a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative, profanely hilarious, and stop-your-heart tender. It is a luminous psychological drama. It is an unparalleled thrill ride. It is resoundingly the great American crime novel. 
 
'This entire book is one gleefully violent foul-mouthed research note. It’s vivid, gripping, surreal' Spectator

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado.

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Epic mashups of historical fact and filthy fantasy . . . no one does it better than Ellroy

This entire book is one gleefully violent foul-mouthed research note. It’s vivid, gripping, surreal

No one captures the nightmare that lies behind the American dream better than the unforgettable Ellroy . . . This is the master of darkness at his incomparable best — simply impossible to put down

Nobody does crime like James Ellroy . . . One of Ellroy's best works in years

One of the great American writers of our time

Ask me to name the best living novelist who's fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid . . . and it becomes simple: James Ellroy. If insanity illuminated by highly dangerous strokes of literary lightning is your thing, then Ellroy is your man

James Ellroy is the American Dostoyevsky

Truly invigorating . . . demonically riveting

Highly entertaining

Electrifying

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