![]() ![]() Confidential (1990), a sprawling noir thriller which satirizes Hollywood and the Disney Corporation and the concluding volume White Jazz (1992), where an uncontrollable outburst of violence takes LA to the brink of anarchy. Most sources, including the author himself, refer to the Quartet as the following four works: The Black Dahlia (1987), a novelization of the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short The Big Nowhere (1988), in which a string of homosexual murders are set against the backdrop of the Second Red Scare L.A. The Los Angeles Quartet comprises some of the most critically praised work in the career of American crime writer James Ellroy, yet despite its influence on the genre, the LA Quartet is not easy to define or quantify in terms of which works belong to the series, nor is its identity as a series fixed. ![]()
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