My Dark Places (9 Hours): James Ellroy's hard-boiled detective fiction is like Raymond Chandler's with a darker post-modern edge. Here Ellroy is writing of a real-life murder, that of his own mother, who was strangled to death in sensational film noir circumstances in 1958 when he was ten. Ellroy's memoir tells how he hired a retired police detective to help him investigate the never-solved crime.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
#119. My Dark Places
My Dark Places (9 Hours): James Ellroy's hard-boiled detective fiction is like Raymond Chandler's with a darker post-modern edge. Here Ellroy is writing of a real-life murder, that of his own mother, who was strangled to death in sensational film noir circumstances in 1958 when he was ten. Ellroy's memoir tells how he hired a retired police detective to help him investigate the never-solved crime.
