James Ellroy : Demon Dog of Crime Fiction.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Lee Earle Ellroy and the Avon Novels -- The last days of Lee Earle Ellroy -- Brown's Requiem: death and rebirth -- Clandestine: the anti-private detective phase -- Stray dogs: 'The Confessions of Bugsy Siegel' and Killer on the Road -- The Avon characters and new writing styles -- 2 The Lloyd Hopkins Novels: Ellroy's Displaced Romantic -- 'L.A. Death Trip': the genesis of Lloyd Hopkins -- Blood on the Moon -- Because the Night -- Suicide Hill -- The Lloyd Hopkins novels: the incomplete series -- 3 James Ellroy, Jean Ellroy and Elizabeth Short: The Demon Dog and Transmogrification in The Black Dahlia -- 'You are free to speculate': Ellroy and the Black Dahlia -- The Black Dahlia -- 'I wrote the last page and wept': Ellroy's Continuing Black Dahlia Narratives -- 'Now we know who killed her, and why': Ellroy and the Black Dahlia true-crime sub-genre -- Perfidia: Ellroy's Black Dahlia legacy -- 4 Developing Noir: The Los Angeles Quartet -- After The Black Dahlia: the evolution of Ellroy's writing process -- The Big Nowhere and 'Man Camera' -- L.A. Confidential and Ellrovian prose -- White Jazz: apocalypse noir -- The legacy and return of the LA Quartet -- 5 The Narrative of Secret Histories in the Underworld USA Trilogy -- American Tabloid -- The Cold Six Thousand -- Blood's a Rover -- Conclusion: 'I have paid a dear and savage price to live history' -- Bibliography -- Index.

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