James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem (USA 2021)

From the Publisher:
Beneath the slick, glittering surface of L.A., an underworld of depravity and wickedness reins. Fritz Brown is a part-time private eye and full-time repo-man who gets his kicks listening to classical music. But the waters get too deep for Brown when he takes a case from a cash-flashing golf caddy named Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker that puts him on the trail of his client's sister and the older gentleman she's run off with. But more suspicious than his sister, a classy cellist, is Fat Dog himself, who has a past more sordid than he lets on. Diving into a cesspool of payoffs, incest, and arson, Brown's California dreaming transforms into a technicolor nightmare. In his hypnotic debut, master crime writer James Ellroy takes us to the edge of an abyss, where nothing, not even Beethoven, can let in the light.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem. Vintage Books, ISBN: 9780593312209 (February, 2021), 336 p., $17.00.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man.

This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies, arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long-hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem. Windmill Books, ISBN: 9780099558873 (November, 2012), 256 p., £8.99.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
James Ellroy is a dark poet of noir fiction. His unique voice startles and electrifies, shattering expectations and complacency with images that linger long after nightfall and powerfully authentic dialogue that lands like a heavyweight's right hook to the gut. The author of gritty and unforgettable crime stories -- including L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, BECAUSE THE NIGHT, THE BLACK DAHLIA, and AMERICAN TABLOID -- Ellroy writes like a berserker in a barroom brawl, with unabating adrenaline and no-holds-barred.

BROWN'S REQUIEM
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.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem. Avon Twilight, ISBN: 0380731770 (October, 1998), 248 p., $13.00.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem (UK 1995)

From the Publisher:
Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man.

This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies, arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long-hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem. Arrow, ISBN: 0099649012 (September, 1995), 255 p., £6.99.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem (UK 1986)

From the Publisher:
Fritz Brown runs a Private Detective agency as a tax dodge but makes his real money repossessing cars. That is until Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker -- a golf caddy flashing a $7000 billfold - hires Brown to watch his beautiful sister and her elderly sugar daddy. From that moment on, Brown is plunged into the dark and violent underworld of a California lottery swindle that goes way back into the past.

"Finishes as strongly as the story engages" -- The Spectator
"A strange yet compelling read" -- Huddersfield Examiner

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. Brown's Requiem was his first novel and was nominated for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award. He is the author of two other novels, both published in hardback by Allison & Busby, Clandestine and Blood on the Moon.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem. Allison & Busby American Crime series: No. 14, ISBN: 0850317436 (January, 1986), 256 p., £2.95.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem (UK 1984)

From the Publisher:
"I had been hired by a vindictive lunatic to disrupt the lives of two decent people. | had the chance to bail out of my case, but I didn't, I couldn't. I was spellbound by a madman."

Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic, ex-vice-squad cop, and classical music buff, makes a living as a private eye on the sleazy side of L.A.'s sleazier streets- His staple work is repossessing cars from people who have fallen behind in their payments and his attitude is tough and disillusioned.

That is until Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker - a golf caddy flashing too much cash - hires his services and engages his curiosity. Hired for a seemingly innocuous surveillance job Brown plunges in to a world where nothing is as it seems and the stink of corruption goes back a long, long time.

In this fast-moving, violent book Fritz Brown seeks the answer to an evil riddle and finds that his solution of fighting violence with violence can lead to worse things than sleepless nights.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem. Allison & Busby, ISBN: 0850315441 (January, 1984), 256 p., £7.95, $13.95.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem (USA 1981)

From the Publisher:
Underneath the golden glitter, Southern California spawns a land of sleaze, sickies, psychos, and wiseguys. Ex-cop Fritz Brown, sometime private-eyes, full-time Beethoven buff, sees it all as he walks the shady side of L.A.'s streets. Now he's got a client named Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker, a caddy who flashes too much cash... and a gut feeling this case could change his California dreaming into a technicolor nightmare. Arson, pay-offs, and porn are all part of Fat Dog's game. But so is his classy cello-playing sister. Brown's desire to make some beautiful music with her gets him knee-deep in the blood-money running on the greens... and murder threatens to turn his song into a funeral dirge.

James Ellroy: Brown's Requiem. A tough California private eye picks up a deadly game of golf where murder is par for the course. Avon, ISBN: 0380787415 (October, 1981), 256 p., $2.50.