| Record Number |
809892 |
| ISBN |
9781101908051 (hardback) |
| Author |
Ellroy, James, 1948- author. |
| Title |
The L.A. quartet / James Ellroy ; with an introduction by Tom Nolan. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. |
| ©2019 |
| Pagination etc. |
xxix, 1378 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) 388 |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (page xv). |
| Contents note |
The black dahlia -- The big nowhere -- L.A. confidential -- White jazz. |
| Summary Note |
Here in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles--etched in red and black and film-noir grays. The Black Dahlia depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. The Dahlia claims him. She is the deus ex machina of a boomtown in extremis. The cop's rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell. The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel and the political novel. It is winter, 1950--and the L.A. County Grand Jury is out to slam movieland Reds. It's a reverential shuck--and the three cops assigned to the job are out to grab all the glory they can. A series of brutal sex killings intervenes, and the job goes all-the-way bad. L.A. Confidential is the great novel of Los Angeles in the 1950s. Political corruption. Scandal-rag journalism. Bad racial juju and gangland wars. Six local stiffs slaughtered in an all-night hash house. The glorious and overreaching LAPD on an unprecedented scale. White Jazz gives us the tortured confession of a corrupt cop going down for the count. He's a slumlord, a killer, a parasitic exploiter. He's a pawn in a series of police power plays and starting to see that he's being had. He's just met a woman. Thus, he's determined to claw his way out of the horrifying world he's created--and he's determined to tell us everything. The L.A. Quartet is a groundbreaking work of American popular fiction. |
| Subject |
Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction |
| Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction |
| Detective and mystery fiction. |
| Added Author |
Ellroy, James, 1948- Black dahlia. |
| Ellroy, James, 1948- Big nowhere. |
| Ellroy, James, 1948- L.A. confidential. |
| Ellroy, James, 1948- White jazz. |
| Shelf Location |
F ELLR |
