The L. A. Quartet : The Black Dahlia, the Big Nowhere, L. A. Confidential, White Jazz by James Ellroy - 2019

Everyman's Library, 2019-06-04. Hardcover. New.

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, 2019-06-04. Hardcover. Like New.

Everyman's Library, 6/4/2019. Later Edition. Hardcover, standard size (i.e. 5-6 by 8-9 inches). New (Condition varies from Fine to Near Fine. Please inquire as to specific condition)/New (Condition varies from Fine to Near Fine. Please inquire as to specific condition). New Contains THE BLACK DAHLIA, THE BIG NOWHERE, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL and WHITE JAZZ

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