L.A. Confidential
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This article is about the James Ellroy novel. For the film, see L.A. Confidential (film). For the book on Lance Armstrong, see L.A. Confidentiel.
L.A. Confidential (1990) is a neo-noir novel by American writer James Ellroy, the third of his L.A. Quartet series.[1][2] It is dedicated to Mary Doherty Ellroy. The epigraph is "A glory that costs everything and means nothing"—Steve Erickson.
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Author | James Ellroy |
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Cover artist | Jacket design by Paul Gamarello Jacket illustration by Stephen Peringer |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | L.A. Quartet |
Genre | Crime fiction, noir, historical fiction |
Publisher | The Mysterious Press |
Publication date | June 1990 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) and audio cassette |
Pages | 496 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
ISBN | 0-89296-293-3 (first edition, hardcover) |
OCLC | 21041119 |
813/.54 20 | |
LC Class | PS3555.L6274 L18 1990 |
Preceded by | The Big Nowhere (1988) |
Followed by | White Jazz (1992) |
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