Brown's Requiem (Armchair Detective Library) - Hardcover

Ellroy, James

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9781562870676: Brown's Requiem (Armchair Detective Library)

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ISBN 10: 156287067X ISBN 13: 9781562870676

Publisher: Otto Penzler Books, 1994

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Fritz Brown, an ex-cop and private detective in Los Angeles, is hired for a simple surveillance job he thinks will provide easy money, but instead he encounters a world of violence and corruption. Reissue.

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Before he began to remap the geography of the crime novel and venture out into the darkest noir night of them all with L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, White Jazz, and American Tabloid, James Ellroy started his career with this powerful but basically straightforward book about Los Angeles private eye Fritz Brown. At first glance, the story of an investigation into a crooked golf tournament that opens up to include arson and murder could be just another work by any one of the dozens of good writers who have used Southern California as a metaphor for the decline and fall of civilization. But behind the terse prose, astute readers will soon begin to hear something else--the increasingly loud clamor of a cry of pain that will eventually become the barely manageable madness of Ellroy's later books. --Dick Adler

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.

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