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| Author | James Ellroy |
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| Cover artist | Cover design by Chip Kidd |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | True crime |
| Genre(s) | Short stories, crime fiction |
| Publisher | Vintage Crime / Black Lizard |
| Publication date | January 26, 1999 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) and audio CD |
| Pages | 288 pp (first edition, trade paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-375-70471-X (first edition, trade paperback) |
Crime Wave is a 1999 collection of 11 short works of fiction and non-fiction, all originally published in GQ, by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy. The collection, issued as a paperback original, includes a short story ("Hush-Hush"), two novellas ("Tijuana, Mon Amour" and "Hollywood Shakedown"), and eight pieces of crime reportage, including "Sex, Glitz, and Greed: The Seduction of O. J. Simpson". More of Ellroy's GQ pieces can be found in the collection Destination: Morgue!.
Contents
- Introduction by Art Cooper, Editor-in-Chief, GQ
- Part One: Unsolved
- "Body Dumps"
- "My Mother's Killer"
- "Glamour Jungle"
- Part Two: Getchell
- "Hush-Hush"
- "Tijuana, Mon Amour"
- Part Three: Contino
- "Out of the Past"
- "Hollywood Shakedown"
- Part Four: L.A.
- "Sex, Glitz, and Greed: The Seduction of O. J. Simpson"
- "The Tooth of Crime"
- "Bad Boys in Tinseltown"
- "Let's Twist Again"
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| Bibliography |
| Stand-alone: Brown's Requiem | Clandestine | Killer on the Road |
| Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy: Blood on the Moon | Because the Night | Suicide Hill |
| L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia | The Big Nowhere | L.A. Confidential | White Jazz |
| American Underworld Trilogy: American Tabloid | The Cold Six Thousand | Blood's a Rover |
| Short story collections: Hollywood Nocturnes | Crime Wave | Destination: Morgue! |
| Non-Fiction: My Dark Places |
| Films |
| Adaptations: Cop | L.A. Confidential | Brown's Requiem | Stay Clean | The Black Dahlia | White Jazz |
| Original Screenplays: Dark Blue | The Night Watchman |
