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 ha[...]

It begins in Dallas. November 22, 1963. The heart of the American Dream detonated.Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got $6,000 in cash and no idea that he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around Kennedy's assassination, no id[...]

Fritz Brown's L.A. -- and his life -- are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorals sung for the dead. A less-than-spotless former cop with a drinking problem -- a private eye-cum repo man with a taste for great music -- he has ben known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter. [...]

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 internment begins. The hellish[...]

America's greatest living crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir-as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels-about his obsessive search for "atonement in women." The year was 1958.Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name.Her son[...]

L.A. Confidential is epic "noir," a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests [...]

"Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection."--"New York Journal of Books"
In his introduction to "The Best American Noir of the Century," James Ellroy writes, "Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled sch[...]

This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy's work and life is arranged as an encyclopedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye novel, Brown's Requiem, to his 2012 e-book Shakedown. It introduces new readers to his characters and plots, and provides experienced Ellroy fans and scholar[...]

Twenty random murders of women remain unconnected in police files, but Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins sees a pattern. Intelligence and madness are pitted against each other in the shattering climax.[...]

Assigned as liaison officer to an FBI investigation into a series of ingenious bank robberies, LAPD homicide detective Lloyd Hopkins uncovers unsavory information about his sworn enemy, the commander of the Internal Affairs Division, Fred Gaffney. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.[...]