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James Ellroy

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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Books

30 books

The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time cover

The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time

1998

Otto Penzler, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Melville Davisson Post, Ernest William Hornung, Edith Wharton, Jack London, O. Henry, Jacques Futrelle, Robert Barr, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Frederick Irving Anderson, Vincent Starrett, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Burke, Georges Simenon, Logan Clendening, James Gould Cozzens, Lord Dunsany, John Collier, Ben Ray Redman, Robert Bloch, Barry Perowne, James Thurber, C. P. Donnel, Harry Kemelman, Ogden Nash, Stanley Ellin, A. A. Milne, Ellery Queen, Evan Hunter, Mickey Spillane, Jack Ritchie, Patricia Highsmith, Edward D. Hoch, Isaac Asimov, John Gardner, Stephen King, Clark Howard, Ruth Rendell, Lawrence Block, Stephen Greenleaf, James Ellroy, Sara Paretsky, Harlan Ellison, Charles McCarry, Elmore Leonard