L.A. Quartet

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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:

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.

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)

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Category: American novels

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