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1	American Tabloid more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist As the 1950s come to a close JFK has his eyes on the White House, Bobby has a red-hot jones to nail Jimmy Hoffa, and J. Edgar Hoover is swooping down on the "red menace." FBI agents Kemper Boyd and Ward Littell work all sides of the street--jerking the chains of made men, street scum, and celebrities alike. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Black Dahlia more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist This violent, brutal portrait of postwar Los Angeles marked the beginning of James Ellroy's long career of portraying the darker sides of the glamorous west-coast city. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Cold Six Thousand more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist Ellroy's 1995 novel AMERICAN TABLOID is a fictionalized recreation of the days just before President Kennedy's assassination. THE COLD SIX THOUSAND, the sequel to AMERICAN TABLOID, picks up almost where the earlier book leaves off. Taciturn heroes (or is it anti-heroes?) Pete Bondurant and Ward Littell return, to wend their way along the ... see all copies from $2.38! new only from $9.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	L A Confidential more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist This work is set during Christmas of 1951. Los Angeles is a city where the police are as corrupt 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	My Dark Places more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist In 1958, when James Ellroy was 10 years old, his mother's body was found in a run-down town near Los Angeles. The murderer was never found; the case remains unsolved. This remarkable book--part unflinching autobiography, part vivid reportage--tells an extraordinarily gripping story about the failed murder investigation, uncovering Ellroy's daring, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	White Jazz more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots, where violence and death will intersect. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Hollywood Nocturnes more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist This collection of short stories depicts a violent, atmospheric portrait of Los Angeles after dark. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Big Nowhere more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist This stark novel tells the grim story of three men inexorably drawn into a web of deception, violence, and perversion in 1950s Hollywood. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Silent Terror more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist In this crime novel, there is a man on the loose in America. A man who kills for the sheer pleasure of spilling blood. A man who rearranges the mutilated bodies of his victims in positions that, to him, have the purity of art. The author also wrote "The Big Nowhere" and "Suicide Hill". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Blood's a Rover more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist Political noir as only Ellroy can write it, "Blood's A Rover" is a novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. Set in the tumultuous year of 1968, this novel is the largest and greatest work of fiction by an American master. see all copies from $11.90! new only from $17.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Crime wave : reportage and fiction from the underside of L.A. more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist This is a collection of James Ellroy's writings about true crime which have appeared in American "GQ" magazine. They include: "Out of the Past"; "My Mother's Killer"; "The Tooth Crime"; "The Seduction of OJ"; "Bad Boy of Tinsletown"; and a novella, "Hollywood Shakedown". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Best American Mystery Stories 2002 more books like this by James Ellroy (Editor), Otto Penzler (Editor) add to wishlist Perennially popular, this anthology is a favorite of mystery buffs and general readers alike. This year Ellroy lends his talent to the editing of the series. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Brown's Requiem more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist Ex-cop and private investigator Fritz Brown finds himself stuck in the sleazy underbelly of Tijuana, caught between a shady client named "Fat Dog" and his sexy little sister, a woman whose allure could bring Brown all the trouble he ever wanted, and then some. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Blood on the moon more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist Detective Lloyd Hopkins tracks down a vicious serial killer whose intensity and drive may be matched only by the fierce and unrepentant Hopkins. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Best American Crime Writing more books like this by Thomas H Cook (Editor), Otto Penzler (Editor), James Ellroy (Introduction by) add to wishlist This annual collection encompasses the most intelligent and gripping crime journalism published during the year. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The cold six thousand : a novel more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist By the author of "American Tabloid", the story continues, from the assassination of JFK right through the 60s to the conflict in Vietnam, chronicling and uncovering the corruption of a decade of American politics. see all copies from $7.20! new only from $183.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Killer on the Road more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist Ellis chronicles the life of a brutal serial killer from childhood to adulthood in this disturbing portrait of a violent, lonely man. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Destination: Morgue!: L.A. Tales more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist This book from James Ellroy, the master of the hard-boiled crime novel, is a follow-up to CRIME WAVE, in that this volume also includes both short works of fiction as well as various nonfiction articles the author wrote for GQ. Naturally, the main topics here are murder, police corruption, the seedy side of Hollywood, and sex. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Badge: True and Terrifying Crime Stories That Could Not Be Presented on TV, from the Creator and Star of Dragnet more books like this by Jack Webb, James Ellroy (Introduction by) add to wishlist Before Charlie's Angels, Miami Vice, or NYPD Blue, there was Dragnet. From 1951 to 1959, Jack Webb starred as Sergeant Joe Friday in the most successful police drama in television history. Webb ("Just the facts, ma'am") was also the creator of Dragnet, and what made the show so revolutionary was its documentary-style format and the fact that ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $4.54! \| SVS
20 view cover	Stark more books like this by Edward Bunker, Jennifer Steele (Afterword by), James Ellroy (Foreword by) add to wishlist Discovered by Bunkers widow after his death, "Stark" is the last book by the legendary cult author of such acclaimed works as "Dog Eat Dog, Little Boy Blue," and "Education of a Felon." see all copies from $3.00! new only from $8.32! \| first editions
21 view cover	Scene of the Crime: Photographs from the LAPD Archive more books like this by Tim B Wride, William J Bratton, Chief (Foreword by), James Ellroy (Introduction by) add to wishlist Shares case information, articles, and recently discovered crime photos from the LAPD archives for dramatic cases that took place between the 1930s and 1960s, in a compilation that includes information related to such crimes as the Black Dahlia slaying, the Onion Field murder, and the deaths of "The see all copies from $75.00! new only from $75.00! \| first editions
22 view cover	Dick Contino's blues and other stories. more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist Dick Contino, a 50s accordion player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $25.59! \| first editions
23 view cover	L.A. Noir : the Lloyd Hopkins novels more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $20.45!
24 view cover	MIS Rincones Oscuros more books like this by James Ellroy add to wishlist In 1958, when James Ellroy was ten years old, his mother's body was found in the gutter of a road in a small town near Los Angeles. The murderer was never found and the case was closed. Ellroy achieved success in his facet of a writer of novels as radical as provocative, but the memory of her mother's death it did not stop him. In this work Ellroy ... see all copies from $6.02! new only from $10.56! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Dudley Smith trio by James Ellroy add to wishlist This Dudley Smith omnibus edition consists of: "The Big Nowhere", "L.A. Confidential" and "White Jazz". see all copies from $9.38! new only from $89.69! \| first editions

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