L.A. Quartet
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[edit] James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet
James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet is made up of four Crime fiction novels set in the late 1940s and early 1950s in Los Angeles. The four novels are:
- (1987) The Black Dahlia
- (1988) The Big Nowhere
- (1990) L.A. Confidential
- (1992) White Jazz
Some critics [1], [2] say that the Quartet marks Ellroy's Crime fiction movement from the tradition of classic Modernist "hard-boiled" Noir fiction of his earlier novels like Brown's Requiem, Clandestine and the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy to postmodern Historiographic Metafiction. For example, The Black Dahlia is a fictional representation of an actual event, the murder of Elizabeth Short.
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- Will Fowler; Reporters: Memoirs of a Young Newspaperman; Roundtable Publishing; ISBN 0-915677-61-X (hardback, 1991)
- John Gilmore; Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder; Zanja Press; ISBN 0-938331-03-5 (paperback, 1994); Amok Books; ISBN 1-878923-10-2 (paperback, 2003)
- Steve Hodel; Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder; Arcade Publishing; ISBN 1-55970-664-3 (hardback, 2003)
- Janice Knowlton, with Michael Newton; Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer : The Identity of America's Most Notorious Serial Murderer--Revealed at Last; Pocket Books; ISBN 0-671-88084-5 (paperback, reissue 1995)
- Mary Pacios; Childhood Shadows: The Hidden Story of the Black Dahlia Murder; 1st Books Library; ISBN 1-58500-484-7 (paperback, 1999)
- William T. Rasmussen; Corroborating Evidence, Sunstone Press; ISBN 0-86534-440-X (hardback, 2004)
- James Richardson; For the Life of Me: Memoirs of a City Editor ; G.P. Putnam's Sons; (hardback, 1954)
- Jack Smith; Jack Smith's L.A. ; Pinnacle Books; ISBN 0-523-41493-5 (hardback, 1981)
- Agness Underwood: Newspaperwoman ; Harper and Brothers; (hardback, 1949)
- Jack Webb: The Badge: The Inside Story of One of America's Great Police Departments ; Prentice-Hall; (hardback, 1958)
- Donald Wolfe; The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles ; ISBN 0-06-058249-9; HarperCollins; (hardback, 2005)
