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Ellroy James: LA Confidential

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.

Ellroy James: The Best American Noir of the Century

Скачать книгу (размер 3 722 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 731) Аннотация: In his introduction to the The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad. Offering the…

Ellroy James: Black Dahlia

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the…