The attractive redhead had been raped, then strangled with her stocking. Her body was dumped in a field. Her pearls were scattered nearby. It didn't take detectives long to figure out who she was. It ...

In crime writer James Ellroy's world, every conspiracy theory you ever heard about the 1960s was true — and there are even more that you never knew. The author continues to rewrite much of modern ...

Podcasting has reached such a state of saturation now that even those who’ve never heard a podcast before are starting their own. Which, in the case of fans of any of the 25 books by 74-year-old ...

There are a lot of reasons not to read James Ellroy's newest novel, Perfidia — the opening shot in his proposed second L.A. Quartet. It's a long and sprawling book with about a million pages and ...

The crime writer Don Winslow has repeatedly followed his characters into the wild borderland between law and crime. HIs ...

Self-doubt plagues many authors, but not James Ellroy. “The American hard-boiled novel begins with Dashiell Hammett’s ‘Red Harvest’ and concludes with my new novel, ‘The Enchanters,’” he says. Ellroy ...

“People love the movie ‘L.A. Confidential,’” Ellroy said. “I think it’s turkey of the highest form. I think Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger are impotent. The director died, so now I can disparage the ...

Directed by Oren Moverman (The Messenger) from a script by Moverman and L.A. noir master James Ellroy, Rampart tracks the downward spiral of LAPD cop Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson). A Vietnam vet whose ...

The unsolved homicide cases of the infamous Black Dahlia and his own mother's 1958 murder shaped famed crime writer James Ellroy's youth. More recently, the murder of two teenage girls made another ...

Murders abound in new novels from James Ellroy, Joe R. Lansdale, Laura McHugh and Leonardo Padura. By Sarah Weinman The Los Angeles crime novelist, whose new book is “This Storm,” is no fan of Cormac ...

The meanest shitheel in American letters, Ellroy whet his pen on bare-knuckle noir sleaze-o-ramas like L.A. Confidential, then decided that the entirety of U.S. history was crime fiction. Slicing his ...