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Women tell the truth about sex, loneliness, work, motherhood, and marriage.
The Black Dahlia (1987) by James Ellroy is a crime novel inspired by the real-life, unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947 in Los Angeles. The work is the first in Ellroy's L.A. Quartet, known for its inspiring depiction of the city and complex plots.
The novel follows Mike Noonan, a successful writer who, after the death of his wife, suffers from writer's block and nightmares. Four years later, he decides to retreat to their summer home, where he is confronted with supernatural phenomena and secrets f
Los Angeles in the fifties. The mafia boss, drug dealer and king of prostitution ended up in prison and left a clear field for the struggle for supremacy on the "market"...
One of the most brutal and controversial crime novels of its time – accused of pornography and violence, but became a bestseller and a classic of British hard-boiled. Darker and crueler than its American counterparts, full of shock and black humor.
The book brings together three stories by this popular American writer ("Showdown in Checotah", "Louly and Pretty Boy", and the title story "Aid to the Enemy") and represents a kind of introduction to the now classic saga of Carlos "Carlo" Huntington Webs