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Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegramatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009).
Ellroy was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Geneva Odelia (née Hilliker) Ellroy, a nurse, and Armand "Lee" Ellroy, an accountant and, according to Ellroy, onetime business manager of Rita Hayworth. After his parents' divorce, Ellroy and his mother relocated to El Monte, California. In 1958, Ellroy's mother was murdered. The police never found the perpetrator, and the case remains unsolved. The murder, along with reading The Badge by Jack Webb (a book composed of sensational cases from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department, a birthday gift from his father), were important events of Ellroy's youth.
Ellroy's inability to come to terms with the emotions surrounding his mother's murder led him to transfer them onto another murder victim, Elizabeth Short, the "Black Dahlia"; throughout his youth, Ellroy used Short as a surrogate for his conflicting emotions and desires. His confusion and trauma led to a period of intense clinical depression, from which he recovered only gradually.
Ellroy dropped out of school. He joined the army for a short while. During his teens and twenties, he drank heavily and abused Benzedrex inhalers. He was engaged in minor crimes (especially shoplifting, house-breaking, and burglary) and was often homeless. After serving some time in jail and suffering a bout of pneumonia, during which he developed an abscess on his lung "the size of a large man's fist," Ellroy stopped drinking and began working as a golf caddy while pursuing writing. He later said, "Caddying was good tax-free cash and allowed me to get home by 2 p.m. and write books.... I caddied right up to the sale of my fifth book."
After a second marriage in the mid 1990s to Helen Knode (author of the 2003 novel The Ticket Out), the couple moved from California to Kansas City in 1995. In 2006, after their divorce, Ellroy returned to Los Angeles. He is a self-described hermit who possesses very few technological amenities, including television, and claims never to read contemporary books by other authors, aside from Joseph Wambaugh's The Onion Field, for fear that they might influence his own. However, this does not mean that Ellroy does not read at all, as he claims in My Dark Places to have read at least two books a week growing up, eventually shoplifting more to satisfy his love of reading. He then goes on to say that he read works by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler accompanied by abuse of alcohol and Benzedrex inhalers.
In 1981, Ellroy published his first novel, Brown's Requiem, a detective story drawing on his experiences as a caddy. He then published Clandestine and Silent Terror (which was later published under the title Killer on the Road). Ellroy followed these three novels with the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, three novels centered on Hopkins, a police officer.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2887.James_Ellroy |
L.A. Quartet series
James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia (read by Stephen Hoy)
James Ellroy - The Big Nowhere (read by ???)
James Ellroy - L.A. Confidential (read by L.J. Ganser)
James Ellroy - White Jazz (read by Scott Brick)
Underworld USA series
James Ellroy - American Tabloid (read by Michael Pritchard)
James Ellroy - The Cold Six Thousand (read by Craig Wasson)
James Ellroy - Blood's A Rover (read by Craig Wasson)
Lloyd Hopkins series / L.A. Noir series
James Ellroy - Blood On The Moon (read by Michael Pritchard)
James Ellroy - Because The Night (read by Michael Pritchard)
James Ellroy - Suicide Hill (read by Michael Pritchard)
Second L.A. Quartet series book 1
James Ellroy - Perfidia (read by Craig Wasson)
Other
James Ellroy - Hollywood Nocturnes (read by Michael Pritchard)
James Ellroy - Crime Wave (read by Michael Pritchard)
James Ellroy - Clandestine (read by Jeremy Gage)
James Ellroy - The Hilliker Curse (read by James Ellroy)
James Ellroy - My Dark Places (read by Michael Pritchard)
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L.A. Quartet series
http://rapidgator.net/file/63bfef21ba50e3b85f99362d49add80a/The_Black_Dahlia.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/31b8727dfd90a22ea2151b257e305aaa/The_Big_Nowhere.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0dd1863fbfe7caaafe3cea6af35d2a29/LA_Confidential.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/394ea960a9dde3bf19f41203934d4f88/White_Jazz.rar.html
Underworld USA series
http://rapidgator.net/file/d2954151d8043e52e985f03af1e567c2/American_Tabloid.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2a368a5644aed03acb0aa673328a2306/The_Cold_Six_Thousand.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fb3c10d0606a208bd7155708fc15fd3c/Bloods_A_Rover.rar.html
Lloyd Hopkins series / L.A. Noir series
http://rapidgator.net/file/cbc724b6b9339f93836041f1e86cf88e/Blood_On_The_Moon.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e4e0a1fecb988e8da63d70817897d409/Because_The_Night.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5bf9aa5e48158ef044dd3d421726ebf9/Suicide_Hill.rar.html
Second L.A. Quartet series
http://rapidgator.net/file/141a1e271947b8d7c12b6989a668a897/Perfidia.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/b5ed5af5a38f3869713e3a7814283f80/Hollywood_Nocturnes.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bdbb6e3b17d00a8cac954900f4067502/Crime_Wave.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/dce3a50fd2f02210a9282c2c53547b88/Clandestine.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/51a81c1651582224a220ed6417b1f1e1/The_Hilliker_Curse.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e2c7c31b54fad9cccc9cbdf12c0b55ea/My_Dark_Places.rar.html |
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