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Plot. German-American Los Angeles –based detective Fritz Brown is hired by the mysterious caddie Fat Dog Baker, who wants him to spy on his sister Jane and her benefactor, the much older businessman Sol Kupferman. Brown recognizes Kupferman as a man he had seen at the Club Utopia before it was burned down some years before.
1 de ene. de 1981 · Brown's Requiem is a pretty typical first novel. It's jam-packed with extraneous details that seem drawn from the author's life but that have little to do with the central plot (e.g., classical music, golf caddying, an alcoholic friend of the protagonist who lives with his mother, binge drinking, eating roasted dog with hippies down ...
Resumen y sinopsis de Réquiem por Brown de James Ellroy. El detective Fritz Brown, un ex alcohólico obsesionado con la música clásica, no es un detective convencional: le echaron de la policía de Los Angeles hace años y todavía tiene que moverse al borde de la ley para salir adelante.
A Novel. Buy Brown's Requiem. Amazon Barnes & Noble Your Independent Bookstore. A less-than-spotless former cop with a drinking problem, a private-eye-cum-repo man with a taste for great music, he has been known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter.
16 de feb. de 2021 · Brown's Requiem. James Ellroy. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Feb 16, 2021 - Fiction - 336 pages. Beneath the slick, glittering surface of L.A., an underworld of depravity and wickedness...
A PI investigates a conspiracy at an LA country club: The first book by “the author of some of the most powerful crime novels ever written” (The New York Times). It would be a stretch to call...
Diving into a cesspool of payoffs, incest, and arson, Brown’s California dreaming transforms into a technicolor nightmare. In his hypnotic debut, master crime writer James Ellroy takes us to the edge of an abyss, where nothing, not even Beethoven, can let in the light.
