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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 brand of mayhem, machismo,
and hollow-nose prose.
Here are Mexican featherweights and unsolved-murder vics,
crooked cops and a very clean D.A. Here is a profile of Hollywood’s
latest celebrity perp-walker, Robert Blake, and three new
novellas featuring a demented detective with an obsession
with a Hollywood actress. And, oh yes, just maybe the last
appearance of Hush-Hush sleaze-monger Danny Getchell. Here’s
Ellroy himself, shining a 500-watt Mag light into all the
dark places of his life and imagination. Destination:
Morgue! puts the reader’s attention in a hammerlock and refuses
to let go.
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in
1948. His L.A. Quartet novels–The Black
Dahlia, The
Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White
Jazz–were
international bestsellers. American Tabloid was Time’s
Novel of the Year; his memoir My Dark Places was a Time Best
Book of the Year; and a New York Times Notable Book, and
his most recent novel, The Cold Six Thousand was a New
York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the
Year. He lives in Kansas City.
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