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LAPD '53

Hardback

Main Details

Title LAPD '53
Authors and Contributors      By (author) James Ellroy
By (author) Los Angeles Police Museum
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 177,Width 219
Category/GenrePhotographs: collections
True Crime
ISBN/Barcode 9781419715853
ClassificationsDewey:779.93632
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Abrams
Imprint Abrams Image
Publication Date 19 May 2015
Publication Country United States

Description

James Ellroy, the undisputed master of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to present a stunning text on 1953 LA. While combing the museum's photo archives, Ellroy discovered that the year featured a wide array of stark and unusual imagery - and he has written 25,000 words that illuminate the crimes and law enforcement of the era. Ellroy offers context and layers on wild and rich atmosphere - this is the cauldron that was police work in the city of the tarnished angels more than six decades ago. More than 80 duotone photos are spread throughout the book in the manner of hard-edged police evidence.

Author Biography

James Ellroy is the award-winning author of 18 books, including The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid, and The Cold Six Thousand. Ellroy's new novel, Perfidia,was published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 2014. Housed in the oldest surviving LAPD station, the Los Angeles Police Museum chronicles the formation and development of the LAPD from its beginnings in 1869. Glynn Martin has been in and around the LAPD for more than 30 years and has served as the museum's executive director for more than a decade.

Reviews

'It's a perfect marriage of words and pictures, but above all it is a love letter to the city of his birth, LA, says Ellroy, 'is the town that made me and that I must return to, again and again.' As must we.' Tatler, July 2015