James Ellroy

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The L.A. Quartet

Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol.1

American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand

Destination: Morgue

Perfidia

Clandestine

Brown's Requiem

Because the Night

The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz

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Four of James Ellroy's most popular crime novels featuring the infamous Dudley Smith, which include: 'The Black Dahlia', 'The Big Nowhere', 'L.A. Confidential' and 'White Jazz'.

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LA Confidential

White Jazz

The first book in the classic L.A. Quartet crime series

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The Big Nowhere

My Pursuit of Women

The Hilliker Curse

The Best American Noir of the Century

My Dark Places

Blood's A Rover

American Tabloid

Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, The Horse's Mouth

A Family Chronicle

Ada, or Ardor

Collected Non Fiction

I Write to Find Out What I am Thinking

Resurrection

Selected Stories and Essays

In a Yellow Wood

A Room of One’s Own

The Patrick Melrose Novels

The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name ; No Name  In The  Street; The Devil Finds Work

Waiting

Motherless Brooklyn; Fortress of Solitude

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The House on Mango Street

Byron's Travels

Novels, Tales, Journeys

The Essential Harlem Detectives

The White Guard

Orlando

The Intuitionist

Hope Against Hope

The Best of Tagore

Blood's a Rover

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Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol. 2

Blood's a Rover takes us into the 70s. RFK and MLK are dead. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an armoured-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. Revolution brews in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Amidst all this, all three anti-heros fall for Red revolutionary Joan Rosen Klein. Each will pay 'a dear and savage price to live History'.

'America was never innocent.' 
Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper's view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster's take on the great events of an incendiary era. It's a tour de force of the American idiom, and an acknowledged masterpiece.

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado.

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