James Ellroy
1) Perfidia
Author
Series
Second L. A. quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows a post-Pearl Harbor murder of a Japanese family that entangles a brilliant Japanese-American forensic chemist, an adventurous woman, a future police chief and an arch villain.
Author
Series
Second L. A. quartet volume 2
Language
English
Description
"From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)-- a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy dons an array of new hats--sleazoid private eye, shakedown artist, matchmaker for Rock Hudson, pimp for President John F. Kennedy--and,...
Author
Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
669 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Wayne Tedrow, Jr., a young Vegas policeman with $6,000 in cash, is drawn unwittingly into a conspiracy involving the cover-up of the truth about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Author
Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
571 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
633 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
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....
8) Rampart
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A riveting parable about what happens to a man who refuses to change, even when change is the only thing that can save him. Dave Brown, a man who has taken the 'no guts, no glory' American mythos to heart, without questioning what it is doing to him and those he holds dear, is a cop whose personal life is propelled into a dizzying downward spiral when he comes under suspicion for roughing up a suspect.
Author
Series
L. A. quartet volume 3
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
496 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Three troubled cops -- Ed Exley, desperately seeking glory; vengeful Bud White, a witness to his mother's murder by his father; and Jack Vincennes, a shakedown artist with a dark secret -- tread a fine line between right and wrong in 1950s Los Angeles.
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The murder of a beautiful young woman in 1947 Los Angeles sparks a great investigation in which Bucky Bleichert, Lee Blanchard, L.A.P.D. Warrants Squad cops, ex-boxers, friends, and adversaries become obsessed by the case.
15) The Black Dahlia
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two police officers, Bucky Bleichert and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short - also known as The Black Dahlia, a young woman who is found brutally murdered. With a corpse so mutilated, the photos are kept from the public. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police departmen. The case...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 307
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 633 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of works by one of the most popular writers of American, hard-boiled crime fiction features the tough, antihero detective, the Continental Op, who narrates four linked stories and the novel, "The Dain Curse."
17) Street kings
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him. He teams up with a young detective to track down Washington's killers, who track down the murderers...
18) Street kings
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color, DVD video ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him. He teams up with a young detective to track down Washington's killers.
