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Jean Ellroy was murdered in 1958. Her body was dumped on a roadway in a run-down L.A. suburb. The killer was never found. The case was closed. It was a sordid back-page homicide that nobody remembered. Except her son.
James Ellroy was ten years old when his mother died. His bereavement was complex and ambiguous. He grew up obsessed with murdered women and crime. His life spun hellishly out of control. He ran from the ghost of Jean Ellroy. He became a writer of radically provocative and best-selling crime novels. He tried to reclaim his mother through fiction. It didn't work. He quit running and wrote this memoir.
My Dark Places is Jean Ellroy's and James Ellroy's story - from 1958 to all points past and up to this moment. It is the story of a brilliant homicide detective named Bill Stoner, and of the investigation he and James Ellroy undertook to find Jean Ellroy's killer. My Dark Places is unflinching autobiography and vivid reportage. It is no less than a treatise on 38 years of American murder. It is James Ellroy's journey into and through his most forbidding memories.
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American Novelists, Mothers and sons, Murder, Family, Social conditions, Family relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Moeder-zoon-relaties, Moorden, Murder, california, Authors, biography, Los angeles (calif.), social conditions, Investigation, Biography, Conditions sociales, Famille, Écrivains américains, Relations familiales, Mères et fils, Meurtre, Biographies, Assassinat, Crimes et criminels, Families, Histoire, BiographiePeople
James Ellroy (1948-)Places
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Mis rincones oscuros: SERIE NOVELA NEGRA
Sep 10, 2008, ZETA BOLSILLO
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Die Rothaarige. Sonderausgabe. Die Suche nach dem Mörder meiner Mutter.
August 1, 2002, Ullstein Tb
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My Dark Places
March 16, 1999, Random House Value Publishing
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Die Rothaarige. Die Suche nach dem Mörder meiner Mutter.
August 1, 1999, Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH & Co. KG / Ullstein Tas
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My Dark Places
December 15, 1998, Random House Value Publishing, Brand: Random House Publishing, Random House Publishing
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My Dark Places Bookmarks
August 1997, Vintage Books USA
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in English
0676529852 9780676529852
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My Dark Places
April 16, 1997, Books on Tape, Inc.
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0913369691 9780913369692
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My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir
1996, Century Publishing Co Ltd
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0712675884 9780712675888
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My dark places: an L.A. crime memoir
1996, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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My Dark Places
November 5, 1996, Random House Audio
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