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 ...

Because he writes books laced with profanity and graphic descriptions of violence, James Ellroy isn’t a writer to everyone’s taste. He is nonetheless the most intellectually ambitious writer of crime ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Ellroy (shown above in 1995) first became interested in crime stories after the unsolved murder of his mother, which happened when he was 10. One particular story that be became fascinated with was ...

James Franco has clamed he is set to adapt James Ellroy's American Tabloid. The 1995 novel from the LA Confidential author is a fictionalised account of five years in the lives of three men involved ...

The man known as “the demon dog of American crime fiction” will take a bite out of Tulsa. James Ellroy is coming to town as a guest of BookSmart Tulsa. “James Ellroy Confidential: An Evening of Books ...

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 ...