James Ellroy

From the Demon Dog of American literature comes James Ellroy’s Hollywood Death Trip. Dig into a quintet of highly stylized true crime that delves into some of the most notorious, unsolved, midcentury-Hollywood murders…

From raging ex-cons on the streets of L.A. to cold-blooded crime sprees in Chicago, nail-biting suspense make this classic collection of murder, crime, and horror stories a thrilling audio experience not soon forgotten.

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...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race hate...

Los Ángeles, un solar desocupado. El cadáver de una mujer de veinticinco años, desnudo y seccionado en dos partes. El médico forense determina que ha sido torturada durante días mientras ella seguía consciente. Un periodista bautiza a la víctima como "la Dalia Negra"....

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...

Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled "Hillikers," read by Stephen Hoye. On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in...

The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid... James Ellroy's high-velocity, best-selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history. Now, in The Cold Six Thousand, his most...

January '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos...

En janvier 1942, Los Angeles est encore sous le choc de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor. Les Américains d'origine japonaise sont...

Los Angeles, veille de Pearl Harbour : la découverte des cadavres d'une famille d'origine japonaise, les Watanabe, incite le LAPD à fabriquer...

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....

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....

Estate 1968. Sui cadaveri ancora caldi di Martin Luther King e Robert Kennedy iniziano a circolare teorie cospiratorie. Le Pantere Nere sono sul piede di guerra a South Los Angeles. Mentre i federali si apprestano a prendere contromisure draconiane.

American Tabloid mette in scena gli uomini e le donne che hanno contribuito all'ascesa e alla caduta di John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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.

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.

Los Angeles, 4 août 1962. La ville subit une vague de chaleur au milieu de l'été. Marilyn Monroe fait une overdose. Une starlette de série B est kidnappée...

Los Angeles 1947: Auf einem verlassenen Grundstück wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau entdeckt – nackt und bestialisch zugerichtet. Der Mord der Schwarzen ...

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.