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Before he began to remap the geography of the crime novel and venture out into the darkest noir night of them all with L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, White Jazz, and American Tabloid, James Ellroy started his career with this powerful but basically straightforward book about Los Angeles private eye Fritz Brown. At first glance, the story of an investigation into a crooked golf tournament that opens up to include arson and murder could be just another work by any one of the dozens of good writers who have used Southern California as a metaphor for the decline and fall of civilization. But behind the terse prose, astute readers will soon begin to hear something else--the increasingly loud clamor of a cry of pain that will eventually become the barely manageable madness of Ellroy's later books. --Dick Adler
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Fritz Brown's L.A.--and his life--are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead. 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. But Fritz Brown's life is about to change, thanks to the appearance of a racist psycho who flashes too much cash for a golf caddie and who walked away clean from a multiple murder rap. Reopening this cas could be Fritz's redemption; his welcome back to a moral world and his path to a pure and perfect love. But to get there, he must make it through a grim, lightless place where evil has no national borders; where lies beget lies and death begets death; where there's little tolerance for Bach or Beethoven and deadly arson is a lesser mortal sin; and where a p.i.'s unhealthy interest in the past can turn beautiful music into funeral dirge.
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I came across this book of Ellroy as an accident and he got me hooked ever since. A no-frills-hard-boiled style detective novel at the first glance but underneath the story of a man struggling with the dark forces within him. It has all the ingredients of his later novels: L.A., boozing, classical music, golf, violent action, 50/60-ies setting and this special dark and dense atmosphere. For me Ellroy redefined the detective/police-novel-genre (especially "White Jazz", my all time favourite)!
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Ellroy's first novel compares favorably to the paperback mystery novels he was, according to his memoir "My Dark Places," digesting in vast quantities prior to writing "Requiem." The novel does not compare to the scope or ambition of Ellroy's "L.A. Quartet," which begins with "The Black Dahlia" and concludes with "White Jazz." This is understandable: many years and books stand in between. Readers thinking of sampling Ellroy should start with the quartet: if your appetite for more Ellroy is piqued, then cast back to this curio.
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This was Ellroy's first published novel. It's a good, solid crime novel. It's mostly in the tradition of his predecessors like Chandler and Hammett, but some of his future trademarks are there, like the seedy anti-hero who eventually discovers and follows his own moral imperative. It's a bit bumpy in spots, and sometimes the plot falls into place a bit too neatly, but it's a good read. It's not nearly as amazing as the L.A. Quartet or American Tabloid, all brilliant books for which he has become justifiably famous. I read this after reading those (as well as My Dark Places and Crime Wave). Had I read this first, I would have been shocked by his later work. Maybe The Black Dahlia is a better place to start for the Ellroy novice.. This one seems almost quaint in comparison.
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A good start to a brilliant career.
Only Ellroy could seamlessly weave the mystique of the golf course with a bizarre murder mystery. This first book is heavily autobiographical, using Ellroy's previous work... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. August 1999 veröffentlicht
I still like more the LA Quartet
Well, I must say that though I adore Ellroy's books, specially the called LA Quartet,but this book has dissapointed me. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. August 1999 veröffentlicht
More than a great read
I have a special place in my heart for this book. It is nowhere near the league of "L.A. Confidential" or "American Tabloid," but it is still very good. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. November 1998 veröffentlicht
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