James Ellroy
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese...
3) LAPD '53
Author
Language
English
Description
James Ellroy, the undisputed master of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to present a stunning text on 1953 LA. While combing the museum's photo archives, Ellroy discovered that the year featured a wide array of stark and unusual imagery-and he has written 25,000 words that illuminate the crimes and law enforcement of the era. Ellroy o ffers context and layers on wild and rich atmosphere-this is the cauldron that was...
Author
Language
English
Description
Fritz Brown's L.A. and his life - are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales 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 musiche has been known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter. But Fritz Brown's life is about to change, thanks to the appearance of a racist psycho who flashes too much cash for a golf caddie and who walked away clean from...
7) Clandestine
Author
Language
English
Description
Fred Underhill, an ambitious young cop in Los Angeles in the early 1950s, heads for disaster when he decides to chase down a lead on a possible serial killing.
10) Suicide hill
Author
Language
English
Description
It was simple...and diabolical. Simply select a bank manager, kidnap his girlfriend, and then hold her hostage until you've cleaned out the bank. At first, it was almost a game. But it turned into an orgy of violence, rape and insane revenge.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work....
12) Dark blue
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Special ed.; widescreen (2.35:1) or standard (1.33:1) formats.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A veteran LAPD detective tutors a rookie cop in the realities of police intimidation and corruption in the days leading up to the L.A. riots.
