James Ellroy: Destination: Morgue!

From the Publisher:
Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America¹s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state¹s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand of mayhem, machismo, and hollow-nose prose.

Here are Mexican featherweights and unsolved-murder vics, crooked cops and a very clean D.A. Here is a profile of Hollywood¹s latest celebrity perp-walker, Robert Blake, and three new novellas featuring a demented detective with an obsession with a Hollywood actress. And, oh yes, just maybe the last appearance of Hush-Hush sleaze-monger Danny Getchell. Here¹s Ellroy himself, shining a 500-watt Mag light into all the dark places of his life and imagination. Destination: Morgue! puts the reader¹s attention in a hammerlock and refuses to let go.

James Ellroy: Destination: Morgue! Vintage, ISBN: 1400032873 (September, 2004), 389 p., $13.95