books by James Ellroy

books by James Ellroy

books:

James Ellroy

James Ellroy

Grand Central Publishing, 1998

Highly impressive
Well, I'll keep it pragmatic. So let me put it this way: If you know who James Ellroy is and enjoy his writing, go ahead and buy this book. You know it's one of Ellroy's greatest so go right ahead and purchase it. For the person who is not fimiliar with Ellroy's ...

White Jazz: A Novel

James Ellroy

Vintage, 2001

Not to be taken too seriously
Apparently this book is on the hit list of policemen across the nation. That alone caused me to read it. Policemen like to read dimestore novels while enduring the boredom of the beat. This book depicts police officers as corrupt, willing to slice the truth in half ...

The Cold Six Thousand: A Novel

James Ellroy

Vintage, 2002

Conspiracy and curruption Ellroy-style
The Cold Six Thousand is a daringly direct take on the biggest events in America in the 1960s - the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther King and JFK's younger brother Senator Robert F Kennedy. All this set against the first few ...

The Badge: True and Terrifying Crime Stories That Could Not Be Presented on TV, from the Creator and Star of ...

Jack Webb

Da Capo Press, 2005

Great True Stories of Crime in Los Angeles and the LAPD
On radio, in the 1950s television version of Dragnet, and in its 1960s resurrection, Jack Webb was Sergeant Joe Friday, the straight-shooting, no-nonsense exemplar of the LAPD. In this non-fiction book, Webb tells the real stories of crimes that were too violent to be ...

My Dark Places

James Ellroy

Vintage, 1997

Relentless
To better understand (if not enjoy) My Dark Places, I would suggest that you need to have read at least one Ellroy novel. It will help to put this semi-autobiography into perspective, and if you're already an Ellroy fan it will make a great deal more sense. It's an ...

The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories (Everyman's Library)
Dashiell Hammett

Everyman's Library, 2007

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett gave us crime fiction stripped down to its most subtle and searing essentials and, at the same time, elevated to literature. The diamond-sharp prose and artfully manipulated intrigue for which he is known are on full display in the ...

The Black Dahlia

James Ellroy

Grand Central Publishing, 2006

Delightful
Having seen the film first, my expectations of this piece were somewhat established. I felt as if I knew what to expect. Much to my surprise, My attention was demanded each scene, and I found it impossible to tear myself away from the beautiful recollections of the ...

American Tabloid: A Novel

James Ellroy

Vintage, 2001

They'll be talking about this book 500 years from now
Let's get one thing straight. This book is bigger than your house. Taller, wider, deeper and more powerful than anything you have beheld up to now, it takes the myth that was once 'nice' John F Kennedy, fleeces it, rips the guts out of it and blasts the remains into ...

L.A. Confidential

James Ellroy

Grand Central Publishing, 1997

One of Ellroy's Masterpieces
This is the masterpiece of the L.A. Quartet series. By this point Ellroy had mastered his 'new' staccato cum John Dos Passos panorama style and he had established the foundation for his vision of a nasty slice of American history--the work of behind-the-scenes men ...

Clandestine

James Ellroy

Harper Paperbacks, 1999

The beginning of the L.A. saga
Some of Ellroy's works are interconnected and critics or publishers have distributed his LA novels in the so-called LA Quartet (Black Dhalia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz)or the Dudley Smith Trio (the previous except Black Dhalia). Why Clandestine ...

Blood on the Moon

James Ellroy

Vintage, 2005

OPUS THREE
Third book of James Ellroy and first novel of the Lloyd Hopkins trilogy, BLOOD ON THE MOON has been published in 1984. Adopting for the first time in his career an omniscient point of view, James Ellroy describes two destinies meant to meet for a deadly encounter. Both ...

Suicide Hill

James Ellroy

Vintage, 2006

suicide hill - best of three
I read this as the last of three in the paperback edition of the Lloyd Hopkins series, and found it the best - unusual, since at that stage, one can normally see through the plot and the characters. The Llloyd Hopkins character in the first two books, particularly the ...

Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.

James Ellroy

Vintage, 1999

Crime Wave's a Wicked Wonderful Work
The Demon Dog dishes out his dirtiest, most daring, most dastardly, debauchery to date. Getchell's got giant gonads and guts galore. Contino carries charismatic crime capers to catastrophic climaxes. Ellory's emotional actual-event epitaphs encourage entire exposure. ...

Killer on the Road

James Ellroy

Harper Paperbacks, 1999

Should have a warning label
This is one of the most unpleasant books I have ever read. Nowhere have I encountered a narrative depiction of the crimes and motivations of a serial killer more realisitc than KILLER ON THE ROAD. What worries me about this book is how realistic it is. I am sure that ...

Scene of the Crime: Photographs from the LAPD Archive

Tim Wride, James Ellroy, ...

Harry N. Abrams, 2004

LAPD Scene Of The Crime (captions)
Just a note on other reviews in regard to the lack of captions. The LAPD negatives are not kept with the case files. There are very few case files even available, as they have been destroyed due to lack of space. There is a normal descruction process within the LAPD ...