The Big Nowhere
by James Ellroy
CrimeFictionCrime in fictionAmerican Detective and mystery storiesFiction, mystery & detective, general
3.8
Open LibraryAbout this book
The author of *The Black Dahlia* presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In *The Big Nowhere*, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place.
Themes & subjects
CrimeFictionCrime in fictionAmerican Detective and mystery storiesFiction, mystery & detective, generalUpshaw, danny (fictitious character), fiction
Setting
Los Angeles (Calif.)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*
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