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James Ellroy

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James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L. A. Quartet novels - "The Black Dahlia", "The Big Nowhere", "L. A. Confidential", & "White Jazz" - were international best-sellers. His novel "American Tabloid" was Time magazine's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir, "My Dark Places", was a mehr anzeigen "Time" Best Book of the Year & a "New Yorker Times" Notable Book for 1996. He lives in Kansas City. (Publisher Provided) James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles, California on March 4, 1948. His parents were divorced and he moved in with his father after his mother was murdered in 1958. The story of his mother's unsolved murder would become the basis for his 1996 nonfiction work entitled My Dark Places. He attended Fairfax High School, where he sent Nazi pamphlets to girls he liked and criticized JFK, while advocating the reinstatement of slavery. He was eventually expelled for preaching Nazism in his English class. He joined the army after his expulsion from school, but after realizing that he did not belong there, he faked a stutter and convinced the army psychologist that he was not mentally fit for combat. After three months, he received a dishonorable discharge and returned home. His father died soon thereafter. He was thrown in juvenile hall for stealing a steak from the local market. When he got out, his father's friend became his guardian, but by the age of eighteen, he was back on the streets. He was sleeping outside, stealing, drinking and experimenting with drugs. It wasn't long before he was thrown in jail for breaking into a vacant apartment. When he got out of jail, he started a job at an adult book store, his addictions growing progressively larger. He was misusing the drug Benzedrex, a sinus inhalent which nearly drove him to Schizophrenia and his drinking was ruining his health. He contracted pneumonia twice as well as a condition called post-alchohol brain syndrome. Fearing for his sanity, he joined AA, became sober and found a job as a golf caddy. At the age of 30, he wrote his first novel entitled Brown's Requiem, which was published in 1981. His other works include Clandestine, Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, Suicide Hill, Killer on the Road, and The Cold Six Thousand. His works The Black Dahlia and L. A. Confidential were adapted into feature films. Ellroy's title, Perfidia, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. 030i weniger anzeigen
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Die Schwarze Dahlie (1987) 5,455 Exemplare
L. A. Confidential (1990) 3,396 Exemplare
Ein amerikanischer Thriller (1995) 2,835 Exemplare
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Die Rothaarige (1996) 1,594 Exemplare
Blut will fließen (2009) 1,008 Exemplare
Heimlich (1982) 778 Exemplare
Browns Grabgesang. (1981) 698 Exemplare
Perfidia (2014) 676 Exemplare
Stiller Schrecken. (1986) 606 Exemplare
Blut auf dem Mond. Sonderausgabe. (1984) 568 Exemplare
Hollywood, Nachtstücke (1994) 567 Exemplare
In der Tiefe der Nacht (1984) 379 Exemplare
Hügel der Selbstmörder (1986) 364 Exemplare
The Best American Noir of the Century (2010) — Herausgeber; Mitwirkender — 362 Exemplare
This Storm (2019) 261 Exemplare
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 (2002) — Editor & Introduction — 159 Exemplare
Widespread Panic (2021) 139 Exemplare
The Best American Crime Writing 2005 (2005) — Herausgeber — 113 Exemplare
Gedumpt (1998) 70 Exemplare
LAPD '53 (1672) 66 Exemplare
The Enchanters (2023) 49 Exemplare
Ricatto (2012) 40 Exemplare
Tijuana, mon amour [SS] (1999) 38 Exemplare
Jungletown Jihad [SS] (2003) 19 Exemplare
Loco por Donna (2006) 14 Exemplare
Grave Doubt [SS] (2002) 12 Exemplare
Extorsion : Suivi de Perfidia (2014) 11 Exemplare
Millennium thriller (2011) 5 Exemplare
L. A. Confidencial. Volumen II (2002) 5 Exemplare
The Black Dahlia (Vol. 2 of 2) (2003) 4 Exemplare
The Black Dahlia (Vol. 1 of 2) (2003) 4 Exemplare
Panique générale (2022) 3 Exemplare
Murder and Mayhem (1993) 3 Exemplare
Erittäin salainen (2010) 2 Exemplare
Cronaca nera (2019) 2 Exemplare
Gravy Train 2 Exemplare
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High Darktown 2 Exemplare
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Jener Sturm: 2 (2020) 1 Exemplar
O grande desconhecido (1993) 1 Exemplar
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Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (1995) — Mitwirkender — 183 Exemplare
Granta 46: Crime (1994) — Mitwirkender — 151 Exemplare
The Badge (1958) — Einführung — 80 Exemplare
L.A. Confidential: The Screenplay (1997) — Einführung — 72 Exemplare
20 Stories Pulp Fictions (1996) — Mitwirkender — 69 Exemplare
Scene of the Crime: Photographs from the LAPD Archive (1700) — Einführung — 61 Exemplare
Street Kings [2008 film] (2008) — Writer — 46 Exemplare
Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics (2010) — Mitwirkender — 42 Exemplare

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Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of History.

Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover’s pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover’s racist designs and obsessed with a leftist shadow figure named Joan Rosen Klein. Wayne Tedrow—ex-cop and heroin runner—is building a mob gambling mecca in the Dominican Republic and quickly becoming radicalized. Don Crutchfield is a window-peeping kid private-eye within tantalizing reach of right-wing assassins, left-wing revolutionaries and the powermongers of an incendiary era. Their lives collide in pursuit of the Red Goddess Joan—and each of them will pay “a dear and savage price to live History.”

Political noir as only James Ellroy can write it—our recent past razed and fully reconstructed—Blood’s A Rover is a novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. It is the largest and greatest work of fiction from an American master. (amazon)
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Dieses Buch ist anscheinend nach "Blut auf dem Mond" der zweite Band in der Trilogie um den Ermittler Lloyd Hopkins. Beim Lesen spielt dies allerdings keine Rolle, man steigt in einen komplett neuen Fall ein. Eigentlich ist die Idee zu dem Thriller sehr spannend. Für den Leser wird immer wieder zwischen Hopkins auf der einen und Havilland auf der anderen Seite gewechselt, so dass man ständig über die weiteren Pläne und den aktuellen Wissensstand der beiden auf dem Laufenden bleibt. Leider wurde meine Lesefreude stark durch die Tatsache gebremst, dass Lloyd der typische "Cop im Alleingang Action Held" ist. Er erledigt fast alles alleine, missachtet Gesetze, wenn er es für nötig hält und legt sich mit Vorgesetzten an. Da solche typischen Actionhelden nicht nach meinem Geschmack sind, kann ich das Buch nur als Mittelmaß bewerten.… (mehr)
 
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Lloyd Hopkins, der Sergeant mit den ungewöhnlichen Ermittlungsmethoden, stößt bei seinen Untersuchungen in einem Mordfall auf den verbrecherischen Mediziner Dr. John Havilland. Dieser ist nicht nur ein genialer Arzt, sondern ein ebenso brutaler Mörder ...

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James Ellroy, 1948 in Los Angeles geboren, begann seine Schriftstellerkarriere 1979 mit dem Roman Browns Grabgesang. Mehr als zwanzig Jahre später hat Ellroy über ein Dutzend einzigartige Romane veröffentlicht und genießt weltweit Kultstatus. Den Durchbruch in den USA schaffte er mit "Die Schwarze Dahlie", dem Auftakt zu seinem schwarzen Epos über die kriminelle Geschichte von Los Angeles in den 50er Jahren. Der dritte Band "Stadt der Teufel" wurde 1997 unter dem Titel "L.A. Confidential" in die Kinos gebracht und gewann zwei Oscars.… (mehr)
 
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