Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America's soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the dammed and the soon-to-be damned.

Set in America in 1958, this is a story of three men beneath the glossy surface of power, allied to the makers and shakers of the era. As the festering discontent of the age burns in these men's hearts, the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity, the Mob clamours for payback, and Kennedy is assassinated.

A beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in shelf. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.

Los Angeles is a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L A P D detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.

Dallas, November '63 - Wayne Tedrow Jr, a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got 6000 in cash and no idea he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around the assassination of JFK, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy.

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.

An investigation into the murder of crime writer, James Ellroy's mother. She was murdered in 1958 and the case was never solved, leaving her son to embark on years of petty crime and drinking. Only later, as a writer, did he begin to delve into his past and set out to solve the mystery.

On 11th January, 1947 in Los Angeles, a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.

Sometimes a conman gets lucky... 'Stark' was Eddie Bunker's first novel, written in the early '60s and a harbinger of the books that brought him critical acclaim such as 'No Beast So Fierce'. Never published during his lifetime, the manuscript was only rediscovered after his death and is published in English for the first time by No Exit. PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED IN JUNE 2007 BUYERS' GUIDE.

A single-volume edition of three of the novels featuring Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of Los Angeles. The first involves the apparently random killings of 20 women, the second a multiple murder committed with a pre-Civil-War revolver, and the third a conspiracy of police corruption.

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.

In this crime novel, there is a man on the loose in America. A man who kills for the sheer pleasure of spilling blood. A man who rearranges the mutilated bodies of his victims in positions that, to him, have the purity of art. The author also wrote The Big Nowhere and Suicide Hill .

This Dudley Smith omnibus edition consists of: The Big Nowhere , L.A. Confidential and White Jazz .

James Ellroy is acknowledged as one of America's greatest writers. As well as his novels, he is a regular contributor to GQ magazine in the States. This collection contains sixteen of these pieces, both autobiographical and crime reportage as well as a novella: Hollywood Fuck Pad.

A collection of Ellroy's true stories, including the only two unsolved murder cases on police file in the author's home town in California. Original novellas, Hollywood Shakedown and Tijuana Mon Amour are also included.

Dick Contino, a 50s accordion player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.

The first of a numbered set of limited edition titles in a beautifully produced, hugely collectable small-format hardback. Part of a major campaign to showcase the Arrow crime list.

This is the second volume of the James Ellroy's uncollected writings: true crime, sex, scandal and a new novella.

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.