Esta serie se adentra en el crudo submundo de Los Ángeles de los años 40 y 50. Sigue historias interconectadas que exponen la delincuencia y la corrupción profundamente arraigadas. Cada entrega presenta nuevos personajes, pero todos están unidos por la asfixiante atmósfera de la metrópoli de posguerra. Es una mirada cruda al crimen, la decadencia moral y la naturaleza humana en la ciudad de los ángeles.
Los Angeles, 1th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in helf. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life. The first part of Ellroy's crime fiction masterwork, the LA Quartet, and based around a real murder case, The Black Dahlia pulses with violence, darkness and brutality. It is crime writing at its most powerful.
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".
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.
L.A., 1958. Corrupt Lt. Dave Klein, rapidly into a morass of bribes, fixes, and murder, hunts a thief whose crime-family victims don't want him caught and agrees to dig dirt on a Howard Hughes starlet--all while struggling to duck the fallout from his latest killing. As controversy over the proposed stadium for the Dodgers in Chavez Ravine brings city politics to a boil, Dave gets the word from mobster Mickey Cohen to help Sanderline Johnson, a half-wit croupier picked up in a raid, out his ninth-floor window before he can testify. The official verdict is flipped-out suicide, but the murder squeezes Dave between his department patron, detective chief Ed Exley; his would-be patron, Capt. Dudley Smith, deep in the Organization's pocket; double-dealing D.A. Bob Gallaudet; and Welles Noonan, a politically-minded US attorney with blood in his eye. Meanwhile, Exley puts Dave in charge of a break-in to the home of mobster J. C. Kafesjian, who wants him off the case; and Dave falls in love with Glenda Bledsoe, the starlet whose contract Hollywood mogul Hughes wants to break--and vows to protect her from the man whose money he's taking to break her. As if all this weren't trouble enough, somebody (Exley? Gallaudet? Dud Smith?) frames Dave for a murder that's been captured on film.
