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James Ellroy's American Tabloid
- A Full Cast Audio Drama
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Alessandro Nivola, Maya Hawke, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
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In 1995, James Ellroy’s novel American Tabloid shocked the world with its gritty reimagining of the events leading up to the JFK assassination. Now, an all-star cast brings Ellroy’s masterwork to life in this gripping new audio adaptation....
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Why did they take out all the racist/homophobic dialogue?
- By Justin G on 11-17-23
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James Ellroy's American Tabloid
- A Full Cast Audio Drama
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Alessandro Nivola, Maya Hawke, Shea Whigham, Elliott Gould, Bobby Cannavale, full cast
- Series: Underworld USA Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-16-23
- Language: English
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Blood on the Moon
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, but he can't get enough of other women.....
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Looking for new answers
- By Darwin8u on 08-18-18
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Blood on the Moon
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-01-10
- Language: English
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L.A. Confidential
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol....
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L.A. Confidential
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Series: LA Quartet, Book 3
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-01-16
- Language: English
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This Storm
- A Novel
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 26 hrs and 36 mins
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January '42. L.A. reels from Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of chaos....
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Pulp. Mucho Pulp. Too much pulp.
- By Mr Dangerous on 06-09-19
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This Storm
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 26 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-04-19
- Language: English
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Brown's Requiem
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Fritz Brown’s L.A. - and his life - are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead....
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it's ok
- By Valentine McGillycuddy on 12-02-18
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Brown's Requiem
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 06-05-12
- Language: English
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Clandestine
- Mysterious Press - HighBridge Audio Classics
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950s....
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Early Proto-Ellroy
- By Darwin8u on 05-21-18
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Clandestine
- Mysterious Press - HighBridge Audio Classics
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 03-05-13
- Language: English
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Hollywood Nocturnes
- Mysterious Press - HighBridge Audio Classics
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Nobody plays accordion like Dick Contino. His skilled fingers can find beauty in even the schmaltziest Borscht Belt favorites, and with his matinee-idol looks he could be a real star....
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Hollywood Nocturnes
- Mysterious Press - HighBridge Audio Classics
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 07-09-13
- Language: English
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The Enchanters
- A Novel
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
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James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic....
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Ellroy is tired
- By butwhatdoIknow on 11-29-23
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The Enchanters
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 09-12-23
- Language: English
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Perfidia
- A Novel
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 28 hrs and 7 mins
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It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins....
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A Masterpiece of Writing and Narration
- By Charles LaBorde on 01-05-15
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Perfidia
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 28 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-09-14
- Language: English
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Destination: Morgue!
- L.A. Tales
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time....
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Noir in the 21st century
- By Michael on 12-31-23
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Destination: Morgue!
- L.A. Tales
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
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White Jazz
- A Novel
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
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Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns - it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer....
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Love me fierce in danger.
- By Darwin8u on 12-06-15
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White Jazz
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Series: LA Quartet, Book 4
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-18-07
- Language: English
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L.A. Confidential
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
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Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals....
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...safe passage for ruthless men in love.
- By Darwin8u on 11-30-15
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L.A. Confidential
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Series: LA Quartet, Book 3
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 06-23-15
- Language: English
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My Dark Places
- A True Crime Autobiography
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night....
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Haughting. I did cry. A good cry.
- By Nerda Trusty on 09-12-19
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My Dark Places
- A True Crime Autobiography
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-23-19
- Language: English
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The Cold Six Thousand
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
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James Ellroy's high-velocity, best selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history...
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Smile more and hate less.
- By Darwin8u on 02-24-16
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The Cold Six Thousand
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Series: Underworld USA Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-22-01
- Language: English
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Because the Night
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Three citizens are butchered during a liquor store holdup. An unstable veteran cop vanishes without a trace....
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A rough draft for better Noir that will come
- By Darwin8u on 08-18-18
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Because the Night
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 11-01-10
- Language: English
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American Tabloid
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
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We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination....
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Riding a shotgun to history
- By Darwin8u on 02-08-16
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American Tabloid
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Series: Underworld USA Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-08-15
- Language: English
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The Black Dahlia
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood....
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Great naration
- By Grasshopper.Craig on 09-10-06
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The Black Dahlia
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Series: LA Quartet, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-25-06
- Language: English
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Widespread Panic
- A Novel
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s LA underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine....
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Great for those familiar with Ellroy
- By Jonathon Pledger on 07-02-21
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Widespread Panic
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-15-21
- Language: English
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Blood's a Rover
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 26 hrs and 12 mins
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Political noir as only James Ellroy can write it....
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Ellroy is a magician
- By Christopher on 09-25-09
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Blood's a Rover
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Series: Underworld USA Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 26 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-22-09
- Language: English
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The Hilliker Curse
- My Pursuit of Women
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: James Ellroy
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir - as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels - about his obsessive search for “atonement in women". The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name....
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Veering toward Vacancy
- By Darwin8u on 12-13-16
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The Hilliker Curse
- My Pursuit of Women
- Narrated by: James Ellroy
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 09-07-10
- Language: English
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