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American Tabloid by James Ellroy
26.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that co ...Show more
LA Confidential: Classic Noir by James Ellroy
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: L.A. Quartet
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked 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 violent careers. ...Show more
Perfidia (Second LA Quartet #1) by James Ellroy
24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: #1 in the second LA Quartet | Reading Level: very good
Nominated for the Folio Prize It is December 6 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans - but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese in ...Show more
The Black Dahlia: The first book in the classic L.A. Quartet crime series by James Ellroy
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: L.A. Quartet | Reading Level: General Adult
Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish jou ...Show more
The Enchanters by James Ellroy
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. Tai ...Show more
The Enchanters by James Ellroy
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Fan favourite Freddy Otash is at large once more, tasked with running the cover-up on Marilyn Monroe's life and death. 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 look ...Show more
This Storm by James Ellroy
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
'Ellroy writes with raw power ... undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time' THE TIMES. 'a tangled fever-dream ... Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA' SUNDAY TIMES. A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pou ...Show more
This Storm (#2 Second LA Quartet) by James Ellroy
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: #2 in the second L.A. Quartet
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 of Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment ...Show more
Widespread Panic by James Ellroy
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
"The king of macho noir" returns to his most notorious character, Freddy Otash, in a high-octane, daring storyFreddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head st ...Show more
Widespread Panic by James Ellroy
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Reading Level: very good
From The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows. Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He ...Show more
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