Author: jamesellroy
At the height of World War II, a corrupt police officer, a war profiteer, an intelligence worker, and a forensics expert all team up to uncover the truth behind a corpse in Los Angeles. The “master of California noir” (Kirkus Reviews) delivers a tale that is “stunning… Wholly satisfying” (Publishers Weekly).
The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. 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 cop to draw the heat,” and the heat’s coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins–all of them…
The Black Dahlia is a roman noir on an epic scale: a classic period piece that provides a startling conclusion to America’s most infamous unsolved murder mystery–the murder of the beautiful young woman known as The Black Dahlia.
“ELLROY IS THE AUTHOR OF SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL CRIME NOVELS EVER WRITTEN”- NEW YORK TIMES Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff’s deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they’re his chance to make his name as a cop…and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.’s Bureau brass. He’s climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted … and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks — bagman, ex-Narco goon, and pimp for Howard…