Ellroy, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: The author provides an account of the 1958 murder of his mother, the failed probe into her killing, its impact on his own life, and the results of an investigation, with ex-homicide detective Bill Stoner, into the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 ELLEllroy, James
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLEllroy, James
Summary: "Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy dons an array of new hats--sleazoid private eye, shakedown artist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Summary: "Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Ellroy, James
Summary: A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law--and three cops in the middle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1990
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2001
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Summary: 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 Chicato. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the votex of history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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Summary: "A pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ellroy 2014Contents: Spurs / Tod Robbins -- Pastorale / James M. Cain -- You'll always remember me / Steve Fisher -- Gun crazy / MacKinlay Kantor -- Nothing to worry about / Day Keene -- The homecoming / Dorothy B. Hughes -- Man in the dark / Howard Browne -- The lady says die! / Mickey Spillane -- Professional man / David Goodis -- The hunger / Charles Beaumont -- The gesture / Gil Brewer -- The last spin / Evan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESContents: Is it raining in Bejucal.--Two-bagger.--Fix.--Summa mathematica.--Man kills wife, two dogs.--Family game.--Blue mirror.--Inscrutable.--Championship of nowhere.--Cobalt blues.--Sometimes something goes wrong.--Mule rustlers.--Maniac loose.--Counting.--You don't know me.--High school sweetheart.--Harlem nocturne.--Midnight emissions.--Lepiodopterist's tale.--Copper kings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: A riveting parable about what happens to a man who refuses to change, even when change is the only thing that can save him. Dave Brown, a man who has taken the 'no guts, no glory' American mythos to heart, without questioning what it is doing to him and those he holds dear, is a cop whose personal life is propelled into a dizzying downward spiral when he comes under suspicion for roughing up a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAMSummary: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998