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I can think of few more absurd and futile tasks than trying to summarise my reactions to three of Ellroy’s masterpieces which I finished reading some months ago. I am doing so for the sake of the completeness of my records, and in order that I shall have something to return to when I manage to either re-read the books or write more about them. That anyway is my excuse for the following! Read the rest of this entry »
James Ellroy – L.A.Confidential (1990)
With this, the third in the LA Quartet series, Ellroy achieves complete mastery of the form towards which the previous two books (The Black Dahlia and The Big Nowhere) have been working; this is not to say that those books are not great but here the elements all come together to form a masterpiece. Read the rest of this entry »
James Ellroy – The Big Nowhere (1988)
Second in the LA Quartet, The Big Nowhere moves on from The Black Dahlia by having a political/historical subject – or rather two: the anti-Communist purges of the late 40′s/early 50′s and the treatment of gay men at the time (and the underworld in which they moved). Read the rest of this entry »
James Ellroy – The Black Dahlia (1987)
Following my discovery of James Ellroy with my reading of the astonishing Blood’s A Rover (see http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/review.html?id=8285 ) I have decided to start working through his canon. Read the rest of this entry »
It has been something of a vintage year and I am able to supply two lists – the first of mysteries published in 2009 (or at least the editions I read were published in 2009) and a second of mysteries published in previous years. I should be clear that the latter list does not include re-reads which accounts for the complete absence of any Golden Age material. Read the rest of this entry »
