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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1962, Freddy O, a corrupt ex-cop, dope fiend and freelance extortionist, believes Marilyn Monroe's death and the kidnapping of a B-movie starlet are riddles only he can solve as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth.
Author
Series
L. A. quartet volume 1
Language
English
Description
Using the basic facts concerning the 1940s' notorious and yet unsolved Black Dahlia case, Ellroy creates a kaleidoscope of human passion and dark obsession. A young woman's mutilated body is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The story is seen through the eyes of Bucky Bleichert, ex-prize fighter and something of a boy wonder on the police force. There is no relief or humor as Bleichert arrives at a grisly discovery. Ellroy's powerful rendering of...
Author
Series
L. A. quartet volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three troubled cops -- Ed Exley, desperately seeking glory; vengeful Bud White, a witness to his mother's murder by his father; and Jack Vincennes, a shakedown artist with a dark secret -- tread a fine line between right and wrong in 1950s Los Angeles.
Author
Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
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 the vortex of History.
Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover’s pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover’s racist...
Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover’s pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover’s racist...
Author
Series
L. A. quartet volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare.
Author
Series
Second L. A. quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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 Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain Smith and a budding war profiteer. He's shacked up with Claire De Haven in Baja, Mexico, and spends his time sniffing out fifth column elements and hunting down a missing Japanese Naval Attache. Hideo Ashida is cashing LAPD paychecks...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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, matchmaker for Rock Hudson, pimp for President John F. Kennedy--and,...
9) L.A. noir
Author
Series
Lloyd Hopkins volume 1-3
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
644 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A single-volume edition of three of the novels featuring Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of Los Angeles. The first involves the apparently random killings of 20 women, the second a multiple murder committed with a pre-Civil-War revolver, and the third a conspiracy of police corruption.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard original edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 288 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of news reportage and fiction on crime in Los Angeles. Included are My Mother's Killer, a story that served as the basis for the book, My Dark Places, and a piece on the filming of L.A. Confidential.
12) Suicide hill
Author
Series
Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hr., 31 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is assigned as a liaison officer to an FBI investigation of a series of diabolical and clever bank robberies. Three men have done their homework: they choose bank managers who are having affairs, kidnap their girlfriends, and force the managers to open the banks early. When the bank robbers turn violent, Hopkins finds himself with a bit of information he would rather not have--information about police corruption that reaches...
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