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Jun 9, 2015 · Join the demon dog of American crime fiction, James Ellroy, as he handpicks his favorite crime scene shots from the LAPD archives.
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....
Included in the title page of My Dark Places ’s opening section is Mrs Ellroy’s photograph, recorded on the morning of her death by the County Coroner, and unearthed by her son some 35 years later among the ‘unsolved’ case files of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
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...
May 14, 2015 · "Despondency" was listed as the cause of the suicide, Ellroy wrote in the book. Los Angeles Police Museum Louis W. Hammert was killed in August 1953, a year after the convicted bank...
Jul 27, 2001 · But for many years, Ellroy left one dark place unexplored: His own mother's murder. In his book "My Dark Places," Ellroy finally confronted the truth that fires his fiction. In the book's...
My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir is a 1996 book, part investigative journalism and part memoir, by American crime-fiction writer James Ellroy. Ellroy's mother Geneva was murdered in 1958, when he was 10 years old, and the killer was never identified.
