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Hollywood Nocturnes is a 1994 collection of short stories by James Ellroy. Like many of Ellroy's novels , the majority of the stories are set in 1940s and 1950s. The collection was inspired by Ellroy's having seen the film Daddy-O and finding cosmic significance in the image of Dick Contino , whom Ellroy tracked down to interview for ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · 3.75. 2,638 ratings88 reviews. Set in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959, Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere ). Dig the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a ...
Set in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959, Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).
12 de jun. de 2007 · Hollywood Nocturnes is a collection of seven mystery stories mostly set in the Hollywood scene of the 1940's & 1950's. Many of these stories are clearly inspired by the true crime case of Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia.
An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop’s worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an Okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen finds himself playing both ends against the middle, all for a murderously magnificent moll.
Set in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959, Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels...
Daddy-O and Dick Contino are both real, their stories dredged out of the past by James Ellroy, a master of historical crime fiction. In Dick Contino’s Blues he takes us to B-List Hollywood in 1957—a time when movies were cheerful and dirty secrets lurked just off camera.
