PERFIDIA is a grand drama set in Los Angeles during the first month of America's entry into the war, and is the first volume in Ellroy's 'Second L.A. Quartet'. Transpiring within only 24 days - December 6, 1941 through to New Year's Eve...

From The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange...

Hügel der Selbstmörder von Ellroy, James

January '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city.A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job....

On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.Caught up in the...

The third book in James Ellroy's "Underworld U.S.A." trilogy, concerned with the political upheaval towards and after the turn of the seventies. Reissued as an Everyman's Library Classic. von Ellroy, James

Böse Ex-Cops, intrigante Killer, feige FBI-Informanten und gefährliche Frauen - im Spiel um Macht, Millionen und Sex sind sie alle willfährige Marionetten, gelenkt von Politikern und ihren zweifelhaften Freunden. James Ellroys Abschluss...

Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential...

The second novel in the second of Ellroy's "L.A. Quartets", following on from 2014's "Perfidia". Dudley Smith is an army captain at this point in the extensive, expansive Ellroy mythology, working as a force for Japanese internment in...

Ein amerikanischer Thriller

Ellroy's back with the third of his LA 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....

Die schwarze Dahlie