A crime novel. — MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2011. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1306594899. This book is the second part of the Lloyd Hopkins trilogy. Orig. published in 1984. While scouring the streets for a missing cop, an L.A. detective uncovers a terrifying crime. There was never a better cop than Jungle Jack Herzog. A wiry man whose strength exceeded his frame, his ability to...
A crime novel. — MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2011. — 262 p. — ISBN: 978-1453227978. Orig. published in 1984. In the first Lloyd Hopkins novel, an L.A. homicide detective chases a cunning serial killer Lloyd Hopkins was not yet a cop when the Watts riots ripped Los Angeles apart. A member of the California National Guard, he had dreams of trading in his khaki uniform for...
A crime novel. — MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2011. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1453227961. Orig. published in 1981. In James Ellroy's first novel, a PI investigates a deadly conspiracy at one of Los Angeles's most exclusive country clubs It would be a stretch to call Fritz Brown a detective. A PI in name only, he washed out of the police force at twenty-five, and makes a cash...
A crime novel. — Avon Twilight, 1999. — 328 p. — ISBN: 978-0380805297. Orig. published in 1982. Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950's — a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it...
2007. James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is film-noir crime fiction akin to Chinatown, Hollywood Babylon, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. It's about three tortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D. : Ed Exley, the clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, a legendary cop in the same department; Jack Vincennes, a cop who advises a Police Squad-...
A crime novel. — Grand Central Publishing, 2013. — 496 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4555-2874-5. This book is the third part of the L.A. Quartet sequence. Orig. published in 1990. 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...
A crime novel. — Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. — 720 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-95699-6. This book is the first part of the Second L.A. Quartet sequence. Los Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hatred grip the city. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. LAPD captain William H. Parker is superbly...
A crime novel. — MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2011. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-1306602372. This book is the third part of the Lloyd Hopkins trilogy. Orig. published in 1986. Forced off the L.A. murder squad, Detective Hopkins goes to work for the FBI on an assignment with deadly consequences. Lloyd Hopkins is breaking down. Once the sharpest detective in Los Angeles homicide, the...
A crime novel. — Grand Central Publishing, 2013. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4555-2875-2. This book is the second part of the L.A. Quartet sequence. Orig. published in 1988. 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....
A crime novel. — Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. — 590 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-95700-9. This book is the second part of the Second L.A. Quartet sequence. 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...
A crime novel. — Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. — 368 p. — ISBN: 0-679-41449-5. This book is the fourth part of the L.A. Quartet sequence. The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy , James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns–it’s standard...
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