Destination, morgue! : L.A. tales / James Ellroy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellroy, James, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.

Murder.

Detective and mystery stories, American--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.

Detective and mystery stories, American.

Police--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.

Police.

California--Los Angeles.

True crime stories--Fiction.

True crime stories.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery stories, American.

Physical Description:

389 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

L.A. Tales

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Vintage Books, [2004]

Summary:

Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America's capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state's evidence, and half of them in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand of mayhem, machismo, and hollow-nose prose. Here are Mexican featherweights and unsolved-murder vics, crooked cops and a very clean D.A. Here is a profile of Hollywood's latest celebrity perp-walker. Robert Blake, and three new novellas featuring a demented detective obsessed with a Hollywood actress. And, oh yes, just maybe the last appearance of Hush-Hush sleaze-monger Danny Getchell. Here's Ellroy himself, shining a 500-watt Maglite into all the dark places of his life and imagination. Destination: Morgue! puts the reader's attention in a hammerlock and refuses to let go.

Contents:

Part 1. Crime culture/memoir : Balls to the wall

Where I get my weird shit

Stephanie

Grave doubt

My life as a creep

The D.A.

Little sleazer and the mail-sex mama

I've got the goods

The trouble I cause. Part 2. Rick loves Donna : Hollywood fuck pad

Hot-prowl rape-o

Jungletown jihad.

Notes:

"A Vintage original"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

1400032873

OCLC:

56415854