JAMES ELLROY:

CRIME WAVE U.K. EDITION

SUMMARY: A collection of Ellroy's essays, fiction and non-fiction articles written for GQ Magazine, for whom Ellroy is a writer-at-large. The book was published in softcover in the U.S. by Black Lizard. The only hardcover edition (pictured above) was published in the U.K. by Century in an extremely limited run. Contents include:

"Out Of the Past"

"My Mother's Killer"

"Sex, Glitz and Greed: The Seduction of O.J. Simpson"

"The Tooth of Crime"

"Bad Boys in Tinseltown"

"Hollywood Shakedown"

"Body Dumps"

"Hush-Hush"

"Let's Twist Again"

"Glamour Jungle"

"Tijuana, Mon Amour"

POINTS: The compilation was published in trade paperback by Vintage Crime (ISBN: 0-375-70471-X) in 1999. "Crime Wave" was published in hardcover in the U.K. by Century (ISBN: 0-7126-7968-5). Ellroy collectors should take note that the original GQ articles as published contain photos and original artwork not reproduced in "Crime Wave."

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