Dick Contino's Blues And Other Stories
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cornerstone
Published:17th Feb '94
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
James Ellroys epochal first collection of short fiction
His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam.
meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles...a killer who is closer to Contino than he suspects - a killer who wants in on the kidnap - for real...
Plus five previously unpublished short stories.
Dick Contino - 50s accordian player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam.
meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles...a killer who is closer to Contino than he suspects - a killer who wants in on the kidnap - for real...
Plus five previously unpublished short stories.
The outstanding American crime-writer of his generation * Peter Gutteridge, Independent *
James Ellroy writes like a man possessed about men possessed * David Pascoe, Modern Review *
Not since the days of Hammett and Chandler has the crime novel been so eloquent and seductive * VOX *
ISBN: 9780099410119
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
Weight: 129g
176 pages