Crime Wave (book)

Crime Wave (book)
 
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First edition cover
Author(s) James Ellroy
Cover artist Cover design by Chip Kidd
Country United States
Language English
Subject(s) True crime
Genre(s) Short stories, crime fiction
Publisher Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Publication date January 26, 1999
Media type Print (paperback) and audio CD
Pages 288 pp (first edition, trade paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-375-70471-X (first edition, trade paperback)
OCLC Number 39860009
Dewey Decimal 813/.54 21
LC Classification PS3555.L6274 A6 1999

Crime Wave is a 1999 collection of 11 short works of fiction and non-fiction, all originally published in GQ, by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy. The collection, issued as a paperback original, includes a short story ("Hush-Hush"), two novellas ("Tijuana, Mon Amour" and "Hollywood Shakedown"), and eight pieces of crime reportage, including "Sex, Glitz, and Greed: The Seduction of O. J. Simpson". More of Ellroy's GQ pieces can be found in the collection Destination: Morgue!.

Contents

  • Introduction by Art Cooper, Editor-in-Chief, GQ
  • Part One: Unsolved
    • "Body Dumps"
    • "My Mother's Killer"
    • "Glamour Jungle"
  • Part Two: Getchell
    • "Hush-Hush"
    • "Tijuana, Mon Amour"
  • Part Three: Contino
    • "Out of the Past"
    • "Hollywood Shakedown"
  • Part Four: L.A.
    • "Sex, Glitz, and Greed: The Seduction of O. J. Simpson"
    • "The Tooth of Crime"
    • "Bad Boys in Tinseltown"
    • "Let's Twist Again"

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