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James Ellroy


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James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed LA Quartet, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz, as well as the Underworld USA trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover. He is the author of one work of non-fiction, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women.
 

Genres: Mystery, Historical Mystery
 
Series
Lloyd Hopkins
   1. Blood On the Moon (1984)
   2. Because the Night (1984)
   3. Suicide Hill (1986)
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L.A. Quartet
   1. The Black Dahlia (1987)
   2. The Big Nowhere (1988)
   3. L.A. Confidential (1990)
   4. White Jazz (1992)
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Underworld U.S.A.
   1. American Tabloid (1995)
   2. The Cold Six Thousand (2001)
   3. Blood's a Rover (2009)
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Second L.A. Quartet
   1. Perfidia (2013)
   2. This Storm (2018)
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Novels
   Brown's Requiem (1981)
   Clandestine (1982)
   Killer On the Road (1986)
     aka Silent Terror
   Widespread Panic (2021)
   The Enchanters (2023)
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Collections
   Hollywood Nocturnes (1982)
     aka Dick Contino's Blues
   Crime Wave (1999)
   Destination: Morgue (2004)
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Anthologies edited
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Non fiction show
 
James Ellroy recommends
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Up with the Sun (2023)
Thomas Mallon
"Thomas Mallon has been America's premier historical novelist for a decade. Up With the Sun cinches the accolade. It's New York City in the aching 80's. The murder of show-biz bottom feeder/monster Dick Kallman and his male lover ramifies throughout the turmoil of the decade--in a stunning hybrid of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and frontline reports from a beleaguered gay demimonde. This book packs period pizzazz and heartbreaking intimacy. And, as always with Mallon--it's a page-turning blast."
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Every Hidden Thing (2021)
Ted Flanagan
"This is a righteous, hard-charging, bell-ringing, mother-....... debut novel!!!!!"
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Green Sun (2018)
(Hanson, book 3)
Kent Anderson
"Kent Anderson has crafted a literary miracle here. We're transported to 'Nam and circa-'80 Oakland, reimagined as Hell, seen through the eyes of a crusading cop unique in the annals of police literature. This jazzy - and jazz influenced - novel is like the best of early Joseph Wambaugh."

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Anthologies containing stories by James Ellroy
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Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010)
The Classics
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Denise Hamilton
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The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road (2002)
Tales of Life on the Move
(The Mammoth Book of ...)
edited by
Maxim Jakubowski

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Awards
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1995) : American Tabloid


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