James Ellroy
Author
Series
Second L. A. quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When torrential rains unearth a body in Griffith Park, a corrupt vice cop, a Japanese crime-lab whiz facing internment, a fascist police consultant, and a rogue profiteer become obsessed with solving the murder and finding the gold from an unsolved gold heist in 1931.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, Freddy Otash, the Tattle Tyrant for Confidential magazine who held Hollywood hostage, decides to tell all, in this tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films, and strange bedfellows.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Los Angeles 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.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films.