LA Confidential - Classic Noir (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

LA Confidential - Classic Noir (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

One of the best (and longest) crime novels ever written, it is the heart of Ellroy's four-novel masterpiece, the LA Quartet, and an example of crime writing at its most

Best American Noir of the Century (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

The Big Nowhere , LA Confidential and White Jazz. In his intoduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of

L.A. Confidential (Ellroy James)(Pevná vazba)

L.A. Confidential is epic noir, a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests

This Storm (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

My Dark Places (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old

Perfidia (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

Hideo Ashida is a brilliant police chemist and the only Japanese on the payroll. Four driven souls - rivals, lovers, history's pawns - thrown into an investigation which will not only rip them apart but take America to the edge of the abyss at a crucial moment in its

Big Nowhere (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the

James et la grosse peche (Dahl Roald)(Paperback / softback)

Cold Six Thousand (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan. This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, and

K.G. Confidential - A Festschrift for Katherine Gallagher(Paperback / softback)

American Tabloid (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's

Hilliker Curse - My Pursuit of Women (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted for his mother and 'summoned her dead.' She was murdered three months

Clandestine (Ellroy James)(Paperback)

In James Ellroy's riveting second novel, an ambitious beat cop is hot on the trail of a serial killer who frequents L.A. dive bars and preys on the fallen women he finds there. Los Angeles, 1951. For Officer Fred Underhill, the job is all about the wonder, an elusive quality he finds while dealing

Choirboys (Wambaugh Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

The classic novel of the LA

Edinburgh: The Classic Old Photographs (McCarroll James)(Paperback / softback)

Big Clock (Fearing Kenneth)(Paperback / softback)

How does a man escape from himself...? A classic masterpiece of American noir

Brown's Requiem (Ellroy James)(Paperback)

Beneath the slick, glittering surface of L.A., an underworld of depravity and wickedness reins. Fritz Brown is a part-time private eye and full-time repo-man who gets his kicks listening to classical music. But the waters get too deep for Brown when he takes a case from a cash-flashing golf caddy

Vanish in an Instant (Millar Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

A rediscovered classic of American noir from one of crime writing's greatest

Addis Ababa Noir(Paperback / softback)

Lost Horizon (Hilton James)(Paperback / softback)

The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La. Flying out of India, a light aircraft is hi-jacked and flown

Last Good Kiss (Crumley James)(Paperback / softback)

'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for' Ian Rankin'A friggin' masterpiece' Dennis Lehane'The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime novelists' George PelecanosMeet Private Detective

Blackbirder (Hughes Dorothy B)(Paperback / softback)

Espionage, adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled with - this classic noir will have you gripped from start to finishJulie Guilles is in trouble. She's fled her home in Occupied France for a seedy neighbourhood in New York and has been laying low - but not low

Ranger (Atkins Ace)(Paperback / softback)

The first Quinn Colson novel, a contemporary book with a dash of classic westerns and noir. 'One of the best crime writers at work today.' Michael

Gone Bamboo (Bourdain Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential comes another sensational