James Ellroy and Otto Penzler mined 100 years of writing, 1910-2010, to find this treasure trove of 39 stories. From noir's twenties-era infancy come gems like James M. Cain's 'Pastorale', and its post-war heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter.
James Ellroy and Otto Penzler mined 100 years of writing, 1910-2010, to find this treasure trove of 39 stories. From noir's twenties-era infancy come ...
Set in 1950s L.A., 'Clandestine' follows Frederick Underhill of the L.A. Police Department as he pursues his dream to become the most celebrated detective of all time.
Set in 1950s L.A., 'Clandestine' follows Frederick Underhill of the L.A. Police Department as he pursues his dream to become the most celebrated detec...
Nominated for the Folio Prize 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 grip the city and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. William H Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police. He's superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith - Irish...
Nominated for the Folio Prize It is December 6 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squ...
Blood's a Rover takes us into the 70s. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an armoured-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. Amidst all this, all three anti-heros fall for Red revolutionary Joan Rosen Klein. Each will pay 'a dear and savage price to live History'.
Blood's a Rover takes us into the 70s. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an armo...
