James Ellroy Audio & Video

On 26 May, 1998, Thriller writer James Ellroy came to the John Adams Institute to speak about L.A. Confidential. Theo D. Haen moderated the evening.

On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered.

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.

Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A.

The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir'as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels'about his obsessive search for 'atonement in women....