James Ellroy: My Dark Places (UK 2010) From the Publisher: Only later, through his obsession with crime fiction, triggered by his mother's murder, did Ellroy begin to delve into his past. Shortly after the publication of his ground-breaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old killing. The result is one of the few classics of crime non-fiction and autobiography to appear in the last few decades; a hypnotic trip to America's underbelly and one man's tortured soul. James Ellroy: My Dark Places. America's Greatest Crime Writer Investigates his Mother's Murder. Windmill Books, ISBN: 9780099537847 (September, 2010), 416 p., £8.99.
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James Ellroy: My Dark Places (USA 1997) From the Publisher: In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten - and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence. James Ellroy: My Dark Places. An L.A. Crime Memoir. Vintage Books USA, ISBN: 0679762051 (August, 1997), 427 p., $14.95.
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James Ellroy: My Dark Places (UK 1997) From the Publisher: James Ellroy: My Dark Places. An L.A. Crime Memoir. Arrow, ISBN: 0099549611 (June, 1997), 351 p., £6.99.
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James Ellroy: My Dark Places (USA 1996) From the Publisher: Except her son. James Ellroy was ten years old when his mother died. His bereavement was complex and ambiguous. He grew up obsessed with murdered women and crime. His life spun hellishly out of control. He ran from the ghost of Jean Ellroy. He became a writer of radically provocative and best-selling crime novels. He tried to reclaim his mother through fiction. It didn't work. He quit running and wrote this memoir. My Dark Places is Jean Ellroy's and James Ellroy's story - from 1958 to all points past and up to this moment. It is the story of a brilliant homicide detective named Bill Stoner, and of the investigation he and James Ellroy undertook to find Jean Ellroy's killer. My Dark Places is unflinching autobiography and vivid reportage. It is no less than a treatise on 38 years of American murder. It is James Ellroy's journey into and through his most forbidding memories. James Ellroy: My Dark Places. An L.A. Crime Memoir. Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: 0679441859 (November, 1996), 351 p., $25.00.
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