The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) by Ellroy, James; Nolan, Tom [Introduction] - 2019-06-04

Everyman's Library, June 2019. Hardcover. Used.

NY: Everyman's Library , 2019. 3rd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Here in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles--etched in red and black and film-noir grays. The Black Dahlia depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. The Dahlia claims him. She is the deus ex machina of a boomtown in extremis. The cop's rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell.The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel and the political novel. It is winter, 1950--and the L.A. County Grand Jury is out to slam movieland Reds. It's a reverential shuck--and the three cops assigned to the job are out to grab all the glory they can. A series of brutal sex killings intervenes, and the job goes all-the-way bad. L.A. Confidential is the great novel of Los Angeles in the 1950s. Political corruption. Scandal-rag journalism. Bad… Read More

Everyman's Library, 2019-06-03. hardcover. New. 5x2x8.

Everyman's Library, 2019-06-04. hardcover. Used: Good.

Everymans Library, 2019. Hardcover. New. 1378 pages. 8.00x5.00x2.00 inches.