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MurderWorld War, 1939-1945World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924FictionFICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled

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Open Library

About this book

Follows a post-Pearl Harbor murder of a Japanese family that entangles a brilliant Japanese-American forensic chemist, an adventurous woman, a future police chief and an arch villain.

Themes & subjects

MurderWorld War, 1939-1945World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924FictionFICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-BoiledInvestigation

Setting

CaliforniaLos Angeles

About the author

James Ellroy

4 March 1948

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), *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). *-- Wikipedia*