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Jun 9, 2015 · Join James Ellroy as he handpicks his favorite crime scene shots from the LAPD archives in LAPD '53.
Jul 8, 2007 · In 1994, James Ellroy, America's greatest living crime novelist, gave us this searing account of how—and why—he finally dared reopen the case of his mother's unsolved murder. By James Ellroy ...
Jun 24, 2015 · In the new book, “LAPD ’53,” crime and historical fiction author, James Ellroy and Executive Director of the Los Angeles Police Museum, Glynn Martin, take readers on a photographic tour of the...
- Nikolas Charles
May 23, 2004 · Ellroy’s mother was killed in El Monte on June 22, 1958. The unsolved case drove the lad inward, and some would say Ellroy -- the brilliant author and chronicler of death -- has never...
- steve.lopez@latimes.com
- Columnist
Jul 27, 2001 · Her son: 10-year-old James Ellroy, the day the policeman bent down to tell him, "Son, your mother's been killed." "I had touched an unknowable horror that remained a literal mystery," he...
- CBS News
Aug 19, 2019 · James Ellroy on his life in crime, his imaginary dog and the need to provoke. By David Marchese Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya. “I’ve had precious few moments,” admitted the novelist...
Aug 30, 1995 · Ellroy’s decision to reopen the investigation of his mother’s slaying came after a newspaper reporter-friend discovered Geneva Ellroy’s murder file while researching a story about unsolved...