James Ellroy
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were international best sellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine's Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. His novel The Cold Six Thousand was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book for 2001. Ellroy lives in Los Angeles.
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The Hilliker Curse
Hardcover | 176 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-59350-4 (0-307-59350-9)
September 7, 2010 | $28.95
Written by James Ellroy
Hardcover | 176 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-59350-4 (0-307-59350-9)
September 7, 2010 | $28.95
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The Hilliker Curse
eBook | 176 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-59432-7 (0-307-59432-7)
September 7, 2010 | $29.95
Written by James Ellroy
eBook | 176 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-59432-7 (0-307-59432-7)
September 7, 2010 | $29.95
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Blood's a Rover
Trade Paperback | 656 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-375-72741-2 (0-375-72741-8)
July 13, 2010 | $18.95
Written by James Ellroy
Trade Paperback | 656 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-375-72741-2 (0-375-72741-8)
July 13, 2010 | $18.95
My Dark Places
eBook | pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-48851-0 (0-307-48851-9)
September 23, 2009 | $21.00
"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and...
Written by James Ellroy
eBook | pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-48851-0 (0-307-48851-9)
September 23, 2009 | $21.00
"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant."
--Philadelphia Inquirer
In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Blood's A Rover
Hardcover | 656 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary
978-0-679-40393-7 (0-679-40393-0)
September 22, 2009 | $35.00
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at...
Written by James Ellroy
Hardcover | 656 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary
978-0-679-40393-7 (0-679-40393-0)
September 22, 2009 | $35.00
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at...
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Blood's A Rover
Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-57667-5 (0-307-57667-1)
September 22, 2009 | $62.00
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at...
Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-57667-5 (0-307-57667-1)
September 22, 2009 | $62.00
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at...
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unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
Blood's A Rover
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-57668-2 (0-307-57668-X)
September 22, 2009 | $39.95
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-57668-2 (0-307-57668-X)
September 22, 2009 | $39.95
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at...
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unabridged audio CD and a
hardcover.
Destination: Morgue!
eBook | 400 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; True Crime - Murder
978-0-307-42554-6 (0-307-42554-1)
December 18, 2007 | $16.95
Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the...
Written by James Ellroy
eBook | 400 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; True Crime - Murder
978-0-307-42554-6 (0-307-42554-1)
December 18, 2007 | $16.95
Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the...
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The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories
Hardcover | 664 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-26669-9 (0-307-26669-9)
September 4, 2007 | $30.00
(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...
Hardcover | 664 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-26669-9 (0-307-26669-9)
September 4, 2007 | $30.00
(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...
Hollywood Nocturnes
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories
978-0-307-27879-1 (0-307-27879-4)
June 12, 2007 | $16.00
Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch–his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen...
Written by James Ellroy
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories
978-0-307-27879-1 (0-307-27879-4)
June 12, 2007 | $16.00
Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch–his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen...
White Jazz
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-4159-4054-9 (1-4159-4054-1)
June 5, 2007 | $25.50
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-4159-4054-9 (1-4159-4054-1)
June 5, 2007 | $25.50
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad...
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
L.A. Confidential
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7393-5456-8 (0-7393-5456-6)
March 13, 2007 | $12.99
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals.
Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and...
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7393-5456-8 (0-7393-5456-6)
March 13, 2007 | $12.99
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals.
Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and...
White Jazz
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7393-5443-8 (0-7393-5443-4)
March 13, 2007 | $12.99
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad...
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7393-5443-8 (0-7393-5443-4)
March 13, 2007 | $12.99
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
The Black Dahlia
Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7393-2388-5 (0-7393-2388-1)
August 29, 2006 | $39.95
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.
Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard. Both are obsessed with the Dahlia–driven by...
Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7393-2388-5 (0-7393-2388-1)
August 29, 2006 | $39.95
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.
Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard. Both are obsessed with the Dahlia–driven by...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
The Black Dahlia
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7393-2389-2 (0-7393-2389-X)
August 29, 2006 | $21.00
Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled "Hillikers," read by Stephen Hoye.
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.
Caught up in the...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7393-2389-2 (0-7393-2389-X)
August 29, 2006 | $21.00
Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled "Hillikers," read by Stephen Hoye.
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.
Caught up in the...
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD.
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