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L. A. Confidential Stadt Der Teufel
by James Ellroy
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles; a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are badly beaten in their cells by drunk police officers. For the three LAPD detectives involved, it is time to face the guilty secrets of their violent pasts.
James Ellroy is one of the best crime writers of the 1990s. You won't be able to put this down. It has recently been made into a tense and atmospheric Oscar-winning film starring Kim Basinger and Kevin Spacey.
Foreign Language StudyEnglish as a Second Language
RELEASED1999
PUBLISHERPearson Education
LENGTH107
LANGUAGEEN
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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L. A. Confidential Stadt Der Teufel
by James Ellroy
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles; a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are badly beaten in their cells by drunk police officers. For the three LAPD detectives involved, it is time to face the guilty secrets of their violent pasts.
James Ellroy is one of the best crime writers of the 1990s. You won't be able to put this down. It has recently been made into a tense and atmospheric Oscar-winning film starring Kim Basinger and Kevin Spacey.
Foreign Language StudyEnglish as a Second Language
RELEASED1999
PUBLISHERPearson Education
LENGTH107
LANGUAGEEN
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*
