โ Ellroy, James
๐ Fiction
๐
2012
๐ Grand Central Publishing
๐ English
โ 265 KB
๐ 1 views
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L.A. confidential
โ Scribed by James Ellroy
- Publisher
- Arrow;Grand Central Publishing, Sold by Hachette Book Group
- Year
- 1990;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 253 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1455529168
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY: Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: A City Where The Police Are As Corrupt As The Criminals. Six Prisoners Are Beaten Senseless In Their Cells By Cops Crazed On Alcohol. For The Three L. A. P. D. Detectives Involved, It Will Expose The Guilty Secrets On Which They Have Built Their Corrupt And Violent Careers- Praise For L. A. Confidential: 'Ellroy Writes As If Driven By Demons. His Brutal, Staccato Graffiti Tips Over Into Art' Sunday Times 'No Emotion Is Spared; The Writing Is Sparse, The Plotting Controlled. Not For The Faint Of Heart, This Is A Big, Powerful Crime Novel And Possibly The First Important Example Of The Genre In The 1990S' Sunday Telegraph 'Empty Of Any Unessentials And Full Of Wise-Cracking Wit' Mail On Sunday 'Unputdownable' Time Out
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### Amazon.com Review James Ellroy's *L.A. Confidential* is film-noir crime fiction akin to *Chinatown*, *Hollywood Babylon*, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. It's about three tortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D.: Ed Exley, the clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of
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Ellroy's back with the third of his LA Quartet! Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on whic
โ James Ellroy
๐ Fiction
๐
2012
๐ Grand Central Publishing
๐ English
โ 266 KB
L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests
โ Ellroy, James
๐ Fiction
๐
1990;1997
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๐ English
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### Amazon.com Review James Ellroy's _L.A. Confidential_ is film-noir crime fiction akin to _Chinatown_ , _Hollywood Babylon_ , Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. It's about three tortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D.: Ed Exley, the clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow
โ Ellroy, James
๐ Fiction
๐
1990;1997
๐ Grand Central Publishing;Warner Books
๐ English
โ 253 KB
*L.A. Confidential* is an epic crime novel that stands as a steel-edged time capsule--Los Angeles in the 1950s, a remarkable era defined in dark shadings. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law--three cops treading quicksand in the middle. Dete