The Black Dahlia

Los Angeles, in 1958 is a city on the make. It is a boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein is in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. He stands at the centre of a complex web of plots, where violence and death intersect.

The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a malestrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness.

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. Marlowe's got his work cut out. But that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.

A collection of novels including The Big Sleep , Farewell My Lovely , and The Long Goodbye .

Story of a bank robbery and its aftermath, of cross and double-cross. When it comes to pulling off the perfect bank job, Doc McCoy wrote the book. His partner Rudy Torrento, who is not only treacherous, but insane, and his wife is still an amateur. When the crime is big & bloody enough there is no such thing a clean getaway.

On April 4th, 1968, Dr King is assassinated on the balcony of his motel in Memphis, Tennessee. And black America rises as one to condemn the slaying of their hero. For one week, it seems that the whole country will fall.

Three celebrated novels, 'The Maltese Falcon', 'The Thin Man' and 'Red Harvest'.

Set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, this is the story of Frederick Underhill's dream to become the most celebrated detective of all time. The death of a lonely woman soon gives him his chance but instead of finding his career on the way up, Underhill finds his life about to collapse.

A reissue of Ellroy's first novel. This is the story of Fritz Brown's nightmare, played out in the underworld of golf caddies, arson and incest, against a backdrop of Los Angeles - surreal by night and bad by day. Brown, the ex-alcoholic private eye, is driven back to the bottle and the gun.

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty.