Murder and Mayhem: More Than 75 Case Histories of Heinous Crimes

by James Ellroy

Book by Consumer Guide editors

288 pages, Paperback

First published December 20, 1991

About the author

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).

Reviews

[Bailey · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is outdated. I picked it up at a used book store. Given it was published in 1991, based on personal opinion using crime reports and court files, you aren’t going to learn much. Given if it was 1991, it would have been good for the time.

[Tanya · Rating 1 out of 5]

Do not bother. It is lacks solid information.