Destination: Morgue!

First edition cover
AuthorJames Ellroy
Cover artistCover design by Chip Kidd
Cover images: Los Angeles Times Collection, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
LanguageEnglish
SubjectTrue crime
GenreShort stories, novellas, crime fiction
PublisherVintage Books
Publication date
September 28, 2004
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages389 pp (first edition, trade paperback)
ISBN1-4000-3287-3 (first edition, trade paperback)
OCLC56415854
813/.54 22
LC ClassPS3555.L6274 D47 2004

Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales is a 2004 collection of 12 short works by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy.[1] Eight of the pieces are non-fiction crime reportage or essays that Ellroy originally wrote for GQ magazine, some of which are autobiographical (see also his memoir My Dark Places).[2] Also included are three new novellas ("Hollywood Fuck Pad," "Hot-Prowl Rape-O," and "Jungle Jihad") and one short story previously published in GQ ("The Trouble I Cause"). Earlier GQ pieces by Ellroy can be found in the 1999 collection Crime Wave.[3]

Contents

  • Part I: Crime Culture / Memoir
    • "Balls to the Wall"
    • "Where I Get My Weird Shit"
    • "Stephanie"
    • "Grave Doubt"
    • "My Life as a Creep"
    • "The D.A."
    • "Little Sleazer and the Mail-Sex Mama"
    • "I've Got the Goods"
    • "The Trouble I Cause"
  • Part II: Rick Loves Donna
    • "Hollywood Fuck Pad"
    • "Hot-Prowl Rape-O"
    • "Jungle Jihad"

References

  1. ^ Abbott, Kate (May 18, 2015). "Destination morgue: James Ellroy spills LA's crime scene secrets – in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  2. ^ Sallis, James (September 28, 2004). "On board Ellroy's dark express". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  3. ^ Krewson, John (March 29, 2002). "James Ellroy: Crime Wave". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 9, 2018.


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