the crime segments

  97988866011296 Stark House Press, 2025 originally published 1943, Charles Scribner's Sons 196 pp paperback One of my greatest mystery-...

  9798886010763 Stark House Press, 2024 217 pp paperback  Released just recently, this two-books-in-one edition from Stark House  features t...

 9798860101 Stark House Press, 2023 178 pp paperback I just noticed that my last post here was in July. Ouch! On the other hand, July throug...

  Avon Book Company, 1944 (Avon Murder Mystery Monthly No. 20) originally serialized as "Money and the Woman" 1938 108 pp paperbac...

  9780593312209 Vintage, 2021 originally published 1981 321 pp paperback  (read earlier) I hadn't really intended to read more of Ellroy...

 read in March 9780743400107 ibooks, 2000 236 pp paperback I meant to post about this novel some time ago, but in between my reading of the ...

  9780008216450 Harper Collins, 2017 originally published 1932 293 pp hardcover It is really sad that the author of this book, Rudolph Fishe...

   " ... it's dues time."  White Jazz  closes out Ellroy's LA Quartet, and in doing so, takes us into the life of  Dave Kl...

  -- read earlier " It was a once-in-a-lifetime case and the price for clearing it was very, very high." I'm one of those weir...

With two books left to read in  the LA Quartet , after finishing The Black Dahlia and  Big Nowhere I had to take a break.  They're excel...

"... our partnership was nothing but a bungling road to the Dahlia. And in the end, she was to own the two of us completely."   In...

"... it was a pretty good play, as criminal plays go." Two of my favorite mystery/crime novels within the last year or so ha...

97819444520137 Black Gat Books/Stark House Press, 2016 originally published 1954 194 pp paperback A couple of months ago the lov...