|
Noir News |
|
The Literature |
|
Crime |
|
Miscellany |
|
Guestbook |
|
Search Noirnovels |
|
|
NoirNovels.com - A unique repository for all things noir
Non-fiction Noir |
Crime Wave | James Ellroy James Ellroy is a unique and powerful writer with a tough and explosive voice. His obsession with the dark side of LA is personal and vital, triggered by the murder of his mother when he was ten. This defining event spawned an early addiction to paperback and crime novels, and Ellroy`s own writing is saturated in an often violent underworld of bent cops, politicians, stars, sleaze and rumour. Ellroy exploits memory, history, fact and fiction with relentless energy and panache. What emerges is an intense, mythical vision of Tinseltown in the second half of the twentieth century. Crime Wave is a vivid portrait of James Ellroy`s LA landscape. This special collection showcases his investigative non-fiction articles, previously published in the American edition of GQ, and also includes two new novellas, Hollywood Shakedown and Tijuana Mon Amour. |
My Dark Places | James Ellroy On the evening of 21 June 1958 Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in El Monte, California. She was found stangled the next day. Her 10-year-old son James was confronted with the news of the killing on his return from a weekend away with his father. Jean`s murderer was never found, but her death had an enduring legacy on her son who spent his early adult years as a petty criminal. Only in 1994, following the publication of a series of crtically acclaimed novels, was James Ellroy ready to confront his past. He returned to LA, and with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, reopened the casebook of the 38-year-old-killing. Unflinchingly and systematically he confronted every detail, every clue and each shocking revelation. The result is one of the few classics of crime non-fiction and autobiography to appear in the last few decades; a hypnotic trip to America`s underbelly and one of man`s tortured soul. |
|
|