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My Dark Places

Paperback • 2010 • English

My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir

By James Ellroy

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About the book

America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murderer was never found, but her death had an enduring effect on her son - he spent his teens and early adult years as a wino, petty burglar and derelict. Only later, through his obsession with crime fi...Show more

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Book details

ISBN

9780099537847

Publisher

Windmill

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

My Dark Places

Format

Paperback

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