Brown's Requiem

Brown's Requiem

By James Ellroy

Pages

256

Rating

3.54

Year

1981

ThrillerFictionMysteryDetectiveCrimeNoir

Description

The extraordinary debut novel from the indomitable demon James Ellroy. Los Angeles – Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man.This is the beginning of the the underworld of golf caddies, arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long-hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.
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