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American Tabloid
American Tabloid
by James Ellroy
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J. Edgar Hoover, the Ku Klux Klan, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa and dozens of I-talian "businessmen" do battle with "Martin Lucifer Coon," Jack and Bobby Kennedy, and other "Communists" in James Ellroy's latest tomes. Ellroy's tommy-gun prose and morally... (read more)

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The Cold Six Thousand
The Cold Six Thousand
by James Ellroy
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“Ellroy rips into American culture like a chainsaw in an abbatoir. . . . Pick it up if you dare; put it down if you can.” –Time “A wild ride. . . . An American political underbelly teeming with conspiracy and crime. . . . So hard... (read more)

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Destination: Morgue!: L.A. Tales
Destination: Morgue!: L.A. Tales
by James Ellroy
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Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America's capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state's evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And... (read more)

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Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer: The Identity of America's Most Notorious Serial Murderer--Revealed at Last
Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer: The Identity of America's Most Notorious Serial Murderer--Revealed at Last
by Janice Knowlton
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It is one of the most enduringly fascinating crimes in American history. On January 15, 1947, passersby made a grisly discovery in a vacant lot in Los Angeles: the body of a naked young woman, cut in two, and savagely mutilated. The victim was identified... (read more)

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The Big Nowhere
The Big Nowhere
by James Ellroy
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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... (read more)

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White Jazz
White Jazz
by James Ellroy
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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... (read more)

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The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia
by James Ellroy
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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... (read more)

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Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder
Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder
by John Gilmore
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The grisly 1947 murder of aspiring starlet and nightclub habitue Elizabeth Short, known even before her death as the "Black Dahlia", has over the decades transmogrified from L.A.'s crime of the century to an almost mythical symbol of Hollywood Babylon... (read more)

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My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir
My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir
by James Ellroy
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James Ellroy is the heir apparent to Raymond Chandler. His dark, convoluted, steroid-infused crime novels have made him the reigning king of LA Noir. Ellroy's stylized prose is "so hard-boiled it burns the pot" and his outlook is as cynical as a frog in... (read more)

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Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder
Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder
by Mark Nelson and Sarah Hudson Bayliss
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Presenting the most compelling explanation yet for the bizarre nature of the Black Dahlia murder, this volume includes never-before published crime-scene photographs and links the alleged killer to a vast array of influential people.... (read more)

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Clandestine
Clandestine
by James Ellroy
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In the early 1950s, rookie cop Freddy Underhill patrols Los Angeles from Wilshire to Watts, dreaming of making the big bust that will grab headlines and bring him glory. And when an old one night stand is found murdered, Freddy seizes his chance and... (read more)

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Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder
Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder
by Steve Hodel
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In 1947, California's infamous Black Dahlia murder inspired the largest manhunt in Los Angeles history. Despite an unprecedented allocation of money and manpower, police investigators failed to identify the psychopath responsible for the sadistic murder... (read more)

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L. A. Confidential
L. A. Confidential
by James Ellroy
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L.A. Confidential is epic noir, a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught... (read more)

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Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia
Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia
by John Gilmore
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The grisly 1947 murder of aspiring starlet and nightclub habitué Elizabeth Short, known even before her death as the "Black Dahlia," has over the decades transmogrified from L.A.'s crime of the century to an almost mythical symbol of Hollywood Babylon... (read more)

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The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles
The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles
by Donald H Wolfe
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After more than five decades of frustrating speculation and false claims, the long-buried secret of Elizabeth Short's murder is finally revealed. 16-page photo insert.... (read more)

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