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Dick Contino's Blues And Other Stories
  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448134090
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

Dick Contino's Blues And Other Stories

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30 Nov 2011
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10 Nov 1995
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James Ellroys epochal first collection of short fiction

. Dick Contino - 50s accordian player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam.

meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles...a killer who is closer to Contino than he suspects - a killer who wants in on the kidnap - for real...

Plus five previously unpublished short stories.
  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448134090
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176
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About the author

James Ellroy

JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s A Rover; and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is also the author of two other Freddy Otash novels, Widespread Panic and The Enchanters. He was awarded the 2022 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado.
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