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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.

»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.

„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.

„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!

From The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows.Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He operates with two simple rules - he'll do anything but commit murder and he'll never work with the commies.Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. So Chief William H. Parker canned him. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet - and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites and potzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all!In Widespread Panic , we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and dig on the inner workings of Confidential. You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed den ... You'll groove overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge ... You'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor ... You'll be front and centre as Freddy anoints himself the 'Tattle Tyrant Who Held Hollywood Hostage'.

"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

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-Americansbut now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins.

Jeffery Deaver, Joyce Carol Oates, Jim Thompson, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Léonard e lo stesso Ellroy: sono solo alcuni dei trentacinque autori presenti in questa antologia. Quelli qui raccolti sono storie uniche, spesso inedite in Italia, che ci conducono nelle strade di campagna della provincia o nei vicoli bui delle grandi metropoli americane. Racconti che spaziano dalle atmosfere fumose degli anni Venti fino alle tinte horror delle vicende ambientate ai giorni nostri. Storie cupe e morbose, violente e avvincenti, ricche di colpi di scena e suspense, che in molti casi sono state portate sul grande schermo.

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.

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.

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.

It's 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America's soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the dammed and the soon-to-be damned. Wayne Tedrow Jr.: parricide, assassin, dope cooker, mouthpiece for all sides, loyal to none. His journey will take him away from the darkness and into an even greater darkness. Dwight Holly: Hoover's enforcer and hellish conspirator in terrible crimes. As Hoover's power wanes his destiny lurches towards Richard Nixon and self-annihilation Don Crutchfield: is a kid, a nobody, a wheelman and a private detective who stumbles upon an ungodly conspiracy from which he and the country may never recover. All three men are drawn to women on the opposite side of the political and moral spectrum; all are compromised and ripe for destruction. Only one of them will survive. The final part of James Ellroy's Underworld USA trilogy is set during the social and political upheaval of 1968-72. Blood's a Rover is an incandescent fusion of fact and fiction and is James Ellroy's greatest masterpiece.

Exploring themes of fear and vulnerability, the narrative delves into the lives of individuals who mask their insecurities with cynicism. Each character grapples with personal horrors and nightmares, revealing a profound sense of distrust towards both themselves and their friends. The story captures the complexities of human relationships and the struggles of confronting one's inner demons.

Quando Donna, collega del detective Jenson del dipartimento di polizia di Los Angeles, comincia a ricevere inquietanti lettere e mail da un pervertito, nella mente del detective riaffiora un'antica ossessione. Il caso irrisolto di Stephanie, violentata e uccisa nel suo appartamento da un maniaco, è ancora una ferita aperta nel cuore del detective, che adesso teme per la donna di cui è segretamente innamorato. Le sue indagini lo mettono sulle tracce di un giornalista e di una famosa attrice porno con un oscuro e sfortunato passato come transessuale castrato da un killer arabo. Ma dopo il suicidio dell'attrice, Jenson risolverà il caso in modo tanto imprevedibile quanto esilarante.

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.

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.

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.

Los Ángeles. En ninguna otra ciudad el sexo, la celebridad, el dinero y el crimen ejercen un campo magnético tan irresistible. James Ellroy mapea este campo con una ferocidad y astucia inigualables. En esta colección de reportajes y ficción corta, regresa a su hábitat natal y lo retrata como un inframundo envuelto en smog donde "cada tercera persona es un mirón, un merodeador, un pederasta o un proxeneta". Desde los escándalos de la década de 1950 hasta los informes policiales de hoy, Ellroy reabre crímenes verdaderos y restaura las dimensiones humanas de sus víctimas. Sublimemente, resucita la revista Hush-Hush. Y en una novela corta de intriga y corrupción, convoca a las luminarias olvidadas de un Hollywood perdido. Impactante, hipnotizante y escrita en una prosa tan cortante como un picahielo, Ola de crímenes es Ellroy en su mejor momento.

'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.

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".

America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murderer was never found, but her death had an enduring effect on her son - he spent his teens and early adult years as a wino, petty burglar and derelict. Only later, through his obsession with crime fiction, triggered by his mother's murder, did Ellroy begin to delve into his past. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old killing. The result is one of the few classics of crime non- fiction and autobiography to appear in the last few decades; a hypnotic trip to America's underbelly and one man's tortured soul.

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.

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.

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.

En la turbulenta década de los 50, la policñia de la ciudad de Los Ángeles investiga un brutal asesinato colectivo, en un ambiente impregnado de corrupción y violencia. James Ellroy, para quien esta novela supuso su consagración como autor, perfila de manera brillante la compleja personalidad de sus personajes, tres policias que se mueven en los escabrosos límites de la ley, dominados por la ambición , el amor , el odio y la venganza. L.A. Confidential, que fue llevada ala pantalla por Curtis Hanson y protagonizada por Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pierce, Danny De Vito y Kim Basinger, obtuvo dos oscar en 1998.

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".

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.

Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department. A thinking cop in a brutal world, hunting down monsters has, for him, gone from occupational hazard to obsession. In Suicide Hill , Duane Rice kidnaps a bank manager's girlfriend and an orgy of violence erupts. While leading the manhunt, Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins stumbles on a horrifying conspiracy of corruption and betrayal--among his own colleagues.

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.

Los Ángeles, 1951. A los veintiséis años, Freddy Underhill es considerado un policía de gran talento, destinado a una brillante carrera. Sin embargo, la situación cambia drásticamente cuando es asesinada una mujer amiga del detective, y la policía arresta a un inocente que, tras un brutal interrogatorio, confiesa y se suicida. Este error monumental convierte a Underhill en un chivo expiatorio. Después de dejar la policía, el exdetective se convierte en un ser desolado. Años más tarde, cuando otra mujer es asesinada, su instinto nunca apagado le sugiere que existe un oscuro hilo que une ambos crímenes. Se desata una cacería al margen de la ley, impulsada por una sed de justicia —o de venganza— que roza la obsesión.

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.