James Ellroy has spent half his career—the more successful, more engaging half—on a pair of fantastic series: the L.A. Quartet and the Underworld, USA Trilogy, both of which draw fictionalized ...

James Ellroy is the Los Angeles-based author of 19 books, including "The Black Dahlia," "L.A. Confidential" and "Perfidia" (Knopf), coming out Tuesday. He spoke with Marc Myers. The unsolved murder of ...

The author talks about his work, his youth, his solitude and his 14th novel, a World War II tale: "It's more accessible, more human and has more heart and soul than all of my other books combined" By ...

This has certainly been a phenomenal journey but if things stay the way they are, "Perfidia" will be the last episode of Journeyman. Thankfully, Kevin Falls had the foresight to reshape the final ...

There are a lot of reasons not to read James Ellroy's newest novel, Perfidia — the opening shot in his proposed second L.A. Quartet. It's a long and sprawling book with about a million pages and ...