Dick Contino's Blues and Other Stories - Softcover

Ellroy, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099410117 ISBN 13: 9780099410119

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Dick Contino - 50s accordian player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles...a killer who is closer to Contino than he suspects - a killer who wants in on the kidnap - for real...Plus five previously unpublished short stories.

About this title

About the Author:

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels - The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz were international bestsellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine's Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places, was Time magazine's Best Book and New York Times notable book for 1996. He lives in Kansas City.

Review:

"The outstanding American crime-writer of his generation" * Peter Gutteridge, Independent * "James Ellroy writes like a man possessed about men possessed" * David Pascoe, Modern Review * "Not since the days of Hammett and Chandler has the crime novel been so eloquent and seductive" * VOX *

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0099410117
• ISBN 13: 9780099410119
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368