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Narrado por:
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Craig Wasson
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De:
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James Ellroy
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Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals.
Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three LAPD detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 299
It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterpiece of Writing and Narration
- De Charles LaBorde en 01-05-15
De: James Ellroy
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The Enchanters
- A Novel
- De: James Ellroy
- Narrado por: Craig Wasson
- Duración: 19 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
Los Angeles, August 4, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker’s looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O: tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim “Opportunity is love.” Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ellroy is tired
- De butwhatdoIknow en 11-29-23
De: James Ellroy
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Killer on the Road
- De: James Ellroy
- Duración: 9 h
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times—as a child, he possessed a genius intellect, but also a pitiless soul and heart of blackest evil burnished in his adolescence. By the 1960s, Plunkett finds himself in the bay city of San Francisco, amid Charles Manson hysteria, where he indulges in savage and terrible impulses. He is revealed to himself as a pure and perfect murderer. Thus begins a decade of discovery and terror, the coming-of-age of a criminal, pieced together through police reports, media coverage, and confessions.
De: James Ellroy
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Clandestine
- Mysterious Press - HighBridge Audio Classics
- De: James Ellroy
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950s - a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill's reckless ambition - and it propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy. When the case implodes with disastrous consequences, it is Fred Underhill who takes the fall. His life is in ruins, his promising future suddenly a dream of the past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Early Proto-Ellroy
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-18
De: James Ellroy
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The Big Sleep
- Philip Marlowe, Book 1
- De: Raymond Chandler
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 594
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 521
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 519
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I miss Ray Porter
- De Kindle Customer en 03-22-22
De: Raymond Chandler
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L.A. Noir
- The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
- De: John Buntin
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 17 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 182
Midcentury Los Angeles: A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America", a land of sunshine and orange groves, Midwestern values, and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men - one L.A.'s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief - each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good (but a little corny) history of LA
- De Jimmy en 10-23-12
De: John Buntin
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Blood on the Moon
- De: James Ellroy
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 208
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 183
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, but he can't get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He's a thinking man's cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there's something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of 20 years.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Looking for new answers
- De Darwin8u en 08-18-18
De: James Ellroy
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
- De: James M. Cain
- Narrado por: Stanley Tucci
- Duración: 2 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 552
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 438
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution; a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tucci's performance of "Postman" is exquisite!
- De Christopher en 06-25-12
De: James M. Cain
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Widespread Panic
- A Novel
- De: James Ellroy
- Narrado por: Craig Wasson
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 102
Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in '50s LA. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet - and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for those familiar with Ellroy
- De Jonathon Pledger en 07-02-21
De: James Ellroy
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Because the Night
- De: James Ellroy
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 47
Three citizens are butchered during a liquor store holdup. An unstable veteran cop vanishes without a trace. Nothing connects these events except for a nagging hunch in the back of Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins' brain--a sinister foreboding that will lead him through the sin-and-sleaze playground of nighttime L.A. on the trail of a psycho psychiatrist with a talent for terror and mind-control. His gore-soaked journey through Hell will plunge this determined manhunter into the dark heart of madness--and beyond.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A rough draft for better Noir that will come
- De Darwin8u en 08-18-18
De: James Ellroy
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True Detective
- A Nathan Heller Novel
- De: Max Allan Collins
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 980
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 873
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 869
When Mayor Cermak’s “Hoodlum Squad” brings Heller along on a raid with no instructions but to keep his mouth shut and his gun handy, he becomes an unwitting, unwilling part of a hit on Al Capone’s successor, Frank Nitti. As a result, Heller quits the force to become a private eye. His first job: head off a nation-shaking political assassination in Miami Beach. With the Chicago World’s Fair as a backdrop, Heller encounters a ragtag array of crooks and clients, including Al Capone, George Raft, “Dutch” Reagan, and FDR himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THE "FORREST GUMP" OF FILM NOIR NOVELS
- De The Louligan en 12-27-13
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Oscar Wars
- A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
- De: Michael Schulman
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 21 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 316
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 262
In Oscar Wars, Michael Schulman chronicles the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramas—some iconic, others never-before-revealed—that have played out on the stage and off camera. Unlike other books on the subject, each chapter takes a deep dive into a particular year, conflict, or even category that tells a larger story of cultural change, from Louis B. Mayer to Moonlight. Schulman examines how the red carpet runs through contested turf, and the victors aren't always as clear as the names drawn from envelopes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and FUN
- De Peter Riley en 06-11-23
De: Michael Schulman
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The Choirboys
- De: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 293
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 231
Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch - shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap - each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends–he is afraid of himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitely Funny, Probably Offensive
- De John Strange en 12-18-14
De: Joseph Wambaugh
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Gringos
- De: Charles Portis
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
For a time, Jimmy spent his expat days in Mexico unearthing pre-Columbian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing-person situation. But Jimmy’s laid-back lifestyle is being seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker named Louise. Add to this a sudden wave of hippies led by a murderous ex-con guru in search of psychic happenings, archaeologists unearthing (illegally) the Mayan tombs, and Louise and her weirdo husband’s quest for UFO sites, and Jimmy’s south-of-the-border existence is in danger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A modern Mark Twain
- De Patrick King en 06-29-23
De: Charles Portis
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The Innocent Man
- Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Craig Wasson
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,010
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,034
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,034
In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death - in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wake up people...
- De Michael H. Wagner en 10-14-09
De: John Grisham
twistier than movie!
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LA Confidential
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Wow! Author, author! Amazing!
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I've read this book countless times, but I decided to listen to it this time around. Overall the audio book is great. Wesson is a gifted narrator and he handles Ellroy's unique staccato style very well. Um, the less said about his voices for female, Hispanic, Black and Asian characters the better. I have to admit, I usually read the last section of the book fairly quickly because there's so much going on. Listening to the book was great because it slowed me down and forced me to really pay attention to the story. I picked up on things I had missed in the past.
Great Audio of a Complicated Book
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WAY better than the movie!
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Long ass book
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A great wrapup
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Fantastic - crime thriller
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If you loved the movie, you’re going to love this!
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The movie is better…
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