Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009). -- Wikipedia
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James Ellroy (1948-), Archie, Bucky Bleichert, C. Auguste Dupin, Cindy Morrison, Duncan Ross, Elizabeth Short (1924-1947), Jabez Wilson, Jimmy McCann, John Clay, John H. Watson, Lee Blanchard, Minister D—, Mr. Merryweather, Police Inspector Jones, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Richard Morrison, Sherlock Holmes, Victor Donatti, Vincent SpauldingTime
20th century, 1890, 1940s and 1950s, 1946, 1947, 1960-1980, 1963-1969, 1969-1974, 20e siècle, Siglo XXID Numbers
- OLID: OL40671A
- ISNI: 0000000122776844
- VIAF: 27090921
- Wikidata: Q318487
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