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American Tabloid by James Ellroy
22.99 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
Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy
24.95 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
It's 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America's soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the dammed and the soon-to-be damned. Wayne Tedrow Jr.: parricide, assassin, dope cooker, mouthpiece for all sides, loyal to ...Show more
Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Dallas, November 22nd, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr. has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, C ...Show more
LA Confidential: Classic Noir by James Ellroy
22.99 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
LAPD '53 by James Ellroy
29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
James Ellroy, the undisputed master and artist of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to expose the lurid underside of LA in the mid 1950s. After combing through the photo archives of the LA Police Museum, he discovered that 1953 featured the most unusual and striking imagery ...Show more
My Dark Places by James Ellroy
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Ellroy is a unique voice in American fiction' - Jonathan Kellerman. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her 10 year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murde ...Show more
Perfidia by James Ellroy
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Reading Level: very good
It is December 6, 1941, in Los Angeles. World War II has raged for two years in Great Britain and Europe. Japan has gone on a rampage in Asia and the Pacific - and America's entrance into the war is a widely accepted and utterly foregone conclusion. Los Angeles is mainland America's gateway to the Pacif ...Show more
Perfidia (Second LA Quartet #1) by James Ellroy
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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 Dain Curse, the Glass Key, and Selected Stories by Dashiell Hammett; James Ellroy
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"With his diamond-sharp prose and artfully handled intrigue, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented hard-boiled crime fiction. This omnibus edition includes four linked stories - 'The House in Turk Street', 'The Girl with the Silver Eyes', 'The Big Knockover' and '$106,000 Blood Money - featuring the Conti ...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