L.A. Quartet Series by James Ellroy, David Strathairn

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  • The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet #1)
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    The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet #1)

    James Ellroy

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings · published 1987

    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 California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia—driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death... more

  • The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet #2)
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    The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet #2)

    James Ellroy

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1988

    1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness. Told with Ellroy's characteristically forceful and relentless style, The Big Nowhere is the link between the Black Dahlia and LA Confidential in his masterwork, The LA Quartet... more

  • L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet #3)
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    L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet #3)

    James Ellroy, David Strathairn

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings · published 1990

    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... more

  • White Jazz (L.A. Quartet #4)
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    White Jazz (L.A. Quartet #4)

    James Ellroy

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 1992

    Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire... more

  • The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia / The Big Nowhere / L.A. Confidential / White Jazz (L.A. Quartet #1-4)
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    The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia / The Big Nowhere / L.A. Confidential / White Jazz (L.A. Quartet #1-4)

    James Ellroy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2019

    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... more

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