James Ellroy
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Edition.
Description
"Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work....
Pub. Date
[1998].
Edition
Special edition; widescreen.
Formats
Description
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough filmnoir crime films.
4) Street kings
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A vice detective attempts to discover the killers of his former partner while addressing his own crooked methods and troubled conscience.
5) Dark blue
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
Special ed.
Description
A veteran LAPD detective trains a rookie cop in the realities of police intimidation and corruption in the days leading up to the Rodney King beating trial verdict and the L.A. riots that followed.