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Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, but he can't get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He's a thinking man's cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there's something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of 20 years.

It’s late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The U.S. prevailed. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from domestic Communist Party members embedded in L.A. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job. Freddy Otash is named lead investigator. He encounters commie malfeasance at every turn. He homes in on a red-front trade union.

Ed Exley, Bud White e Jack Vincennes sono tre anime in pena in quella bolgia che è il Dipartimento di polizia di L.A. all'inizio degli anni '50. Il caso di un pestaggio a sangue in cella, opera di agenti ubriachi, svelerà gli sporchi segreti su cui si fondano le loro carriere di detective, trascinandoci in una spirale di morte, potere e corruzione. Un gorgo da incubo in cui nessuno, vittime e aguzzini, può dirsi pulito e dal quale nessuno è sicuro di poter uscire vivo.

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 it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand of mayhem, machismo, and hollow-nose prose.

Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950s - a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill's reckless ambition - and it propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy. When the case implodes with disastrous consequences, it is Fred Underhill who takes the fall. His life is in ruins, his promising future suddenly a dream of the past.

Three citizens are butchered during a liquor store holdup. An unstable veteran cop vanishes without a trace. Nothing connects these events except for a nagging hunch in the back of Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins' brain--a sinister foreboding that will lead him through the sin-and-sleaze playground of nighttime L.A. on the trail of a psycho psychiatrist with a talent for terror and mind-control. His gore-soaked journey through Hell will plunge this determined manhunter into the dark heart of madness--and beyond.

22 novembre 1963, tre uomini si ritrovano a Dallas. Il loro lavoro: far piazza pulita delle schegge impazzite rimaste sul campo dopo lo scoppio del proiettile che ha ucciso John Kennedy, e liberarsi dei testimoni scomodi. Per cinque anni questi cavalieri oscuri vengono trascinati in un vortice di complotti e contro-complotti, mentre negli Stati Uniti si scatena una feroce battaglia contro i diritti civili, l'eroina sbarca a fiumi dal Vietnam e si spezzano le vite di Martin Luther King e Bob Kennedy.

I James Ellroys anmelderroste kriminalroman "Ingenmandsland" møder vi tre politimænd, der hver især er fanget i et spind af korruption, bedrag og bestialske mord i 1940'erne og 50'ernes Los Angeles. Historien udfolder sig i kølvandet på den berygtede "Sleepy Lagoon" sag, hvor mordet på en ung mexicaner, ledte til arrestationen og fængslingen af en stor gruppe unge mexicanere. Perioden er præget af store protester, da meget tyder på, at de dømte ikke har fået en fair rettergang.

Nobody plays accordion like Dick Contino. His skilled fingers can find beauty in even the schmaltziest Borscht Belt favorites, and with his matinee-idol looks he could be a real star. Right now, though, he’s slumming it as the headliner in a Grade Z teenybopper picture called Daddy-O. He’s too good for this movie, and finishing it is going to take him to a very dark place. Daddy-O and Dick Contino are both real, their stories dredged out of the past by James Ellroy, a master of historical crime fiction. In Dick Contino's Blues he takes us to B-List Hollywood in 1957 - a time when movies were cheerful and dirty secrets lurked just off camera.

Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns: it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer, a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.

In Los Angeles, in 1953, six innocent people are gunned down at an all-night diner. Three policemen arrive to investigate: Ed Exley, goaded by his father's success on the force and burning to eclipse him; Bud White, witness to his mother's murder, a time bomb with a badge; and Jack Vincennes, a former addict, a shake-down artist who works celebrities. Worse yet, these three see themselves as rivals. Their rage mirrors that of the killers they seek, and all are players in a game without rules or survivors.

The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir - as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels - about his obsessive search for “atonement in women". The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was 10 years old. He hated and lusted after his mother and “summoned her dead". She was murdered three months later. The Hilliker Curse is a predator’s confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de cœur.

Los Ángeles, Nochevieja de 1949. El cadáver mutilado de un hombre joven, los ojos arrancados, mordeduras por todo el cuerpo...es el primer asesinato de la oleada que sembrará el pánico en los entornos comunistas de la ciudad. Danny Upshaw, ayudante del sheriff, se obsesiona con el caso mientras se convierte en anzuelo contra los comunistas en Hollywood. Se sumarán a la caza de brujas Mal Considine, ambicioso teniente de la fiscalía del distrito, y Buzz Meeks, expolicía caído en desgracia.

Los Ángeles, años cincuenta. Camuflada tras sus fabulosas mansiones y el glamour de los clubs nocturnos, la ciudad es un hervidero de corrupción y bajas pasiones. Una noche, una matanza baña en sangre una cafetería de la ciudad. Se trata de una auténtica carnicería, y sus oscuras ramificaciones atraparán a tres policías en sus arenas movedizas. Eclipsado por el éxito de su padre como policía, Ed Exley hará lo que sea para superarle y conseguir la gloria. Bud White, por su parte, vio cómo su progenitor asesinaba a su madre y es una bomba de relojería con placa y pistola.

Der Höllenhund ist zurück: In drei neuen Kurzromanen und zahlreichen Stories und Artikeln richtet Ellroy sein Mega-Spotlight vor allem auf L.A. und erzählt bissig und schonungslos über dunkelste Obsessionen, korrupte Bullen, ungelöste Mordfälle und seinen eigenen Werdegang. Er berichtet über seinen Vater, die Todesstrafe, die Justiz und die Opfer von vierzig Jahre zurückliegenden Verbrechen. Wir begegnen einem verrückten Detective, der von einer Schauspielerin aus Hollywood besessen ist, und auch Danny Getchell läuft uns über den Weg.

Il libro cult di James Ellroy. Nessuno più di lui ha saputo raccontare il lato oscuro di Los Angeles. Quel lato oscuro che ha ucciso Elizabeth Short. 15 gennaio 1947, il cadavere martoriato di una bellissima giovane donna viene ritrovato in un terreno abbandonato tra i palazzi di Los Angeles. Sui giornali si parla di lei come della «Dalia Nera». E così inizia la più grande caccia all'uomo della storia della California.

Dallas, 22. November 1963: John F. Kennedy ist ermordet und die Hintergründe des Attentats auf den Präsidenten werden vertuscht. Ein junger Polizist kommt in Dallas an, mit einem Überstellungsmandat und 6000 Dollar. Eine höllische Reise durch die wildesten Jahre der amerikanischen Geschichte beginnt – eine atemlose Irrfahrt durch explodierende amerikanische Träume.

In een stad waar de agenten zo corrupt zijn als de criminelen is het onmogelijk goed en kwaad nog te onderscheiden... Kerstmis, 1951. Zes gevangenen worden in hun cel afgetuigd door een aantal beschonken agenten. Voor drie jonge LAPD-detectives betekent dit voorval een keerpunt in hun carrières. Als jaren later een schokkende massamoord Los Angeles op z’n kop zet, dreigen ze verstrikt te raken in het web van leugens, geheimen en corruptie dat ze zelf hebben gewoven..

De gruwelijke, maar waargebeurde moord op Elizabeth Short drijft de agenten Bleichert en Blanchard van afschuw tot complete waanzin. Een absolute misdaadklassieker. In 1947 wordt Los Angeles opgeschrikt door de vondst van het zwaar verminkte lijk van een jonge actrice. 'De Zwarte Dahlia’ beheerst wekenlang de krantenkoppen, net als de levens van rechercheurs Bucky Bleichert en Lee Blanchard – collega’s, vrienden, rivalen. De zoektocht naar Elizabeth Short's moordenaar voert ze langs de schaduwkanten van het naoorlogse Hollywood, en de zwarte randen van hun eigen duistere verlangens.

Dr. John Havilland praktiziert als Psychiater, doch er führt ein Doppelleben. Er zeichnet sich durch soziopathische und psychopathische Züge aus, ist manipulativ und zieht seine Fäden wie ein Puppenspieler – wobei die Puppen in seinem Spiel tatsächlich Menschen sind. Diese Menschen, die ursprünglich seine professionelle Hilfe suchten, sammelt er als seine Anhänger um sich. Noch beunruhigender ist, dass er sie wie Schachfiguren, für seine eigenen dunklen Machenschaften einsetzt, indem er sie mit Drogen und Medikamenten gefügig macht.