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James Ellroy

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His LA Quartet novels – The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz – have won numerous awards.

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Dick Contino’s Blues

James Ellroy

‘June 22, 1958. Dig, hepcats: it’s me, five minutes after the fuzz told me my mother had been murdered.’

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