Hollywood Nocturnes

james ellroy michael prichard

Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch–his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen finds himself playing both ends against the middle, all for a murderously magnificent moll. This is L.A., Ellroy style–corrupt cops, goons with guns, rattling roadsters–and all in the staccato rhythm of the streets. Hollywood Nocturnes shows us the seedy side of glamorous Hollywood, laid out like a corpse in the morgue.

Genres fictioncrimemysteryshort storiesnoirdetectiveamericanthrillercontemporarymystery thriller

0 pages, Audio Cassette

First published January 1,1993

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Format: 0 pages, Audio Cassette
Published: January 29, 1996 by Books on Tape, Inc.
ISBN: 9780736632553
ASIN: 0736632557
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About the author

james ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic 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) and L.A. Confidential (1990).