"1939 - 1945" . . "Historical." . . "California" . . "California." . "FICTION / Literary." . . "FICTION Literary." . "Japanese Americans." . . "Mord." . . "FICTION / Historical." . . "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage" . . . . . "\"A pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese American forensic chemist; an unsatisfiably adventurous young woman; one police officer based in fact (William H. \"Whiskey Bill\" Parker, later to become the groundbreaking chief of the LAPD), the other the product of Ellroy's inimitable imagination (Dudley Smith, arch villain of The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz). As their lives intertwine, we are given a story of war and of consuming romance, a searing expose of the Japanese internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation. In Perfidia, Ellroy delves more deeply than ever before into his characters' intellectual and emotional lives. But it has the full-strength, unbridled story-telling audacity that has marked all the acclaimed work of the \"Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction.\"" . . . . . . . "Perfidia : a novel"@en . "Roman américain" . "Perfidia : a novel" . . . . . . . . . . . "Follows a post-Pearl Harbor murder of a Japanese family that entangles a brilliant Japanese-American forensic chemist, an adventurous woman, a future police chief and an arch villain." . . "Mystery fiction"@en . . . . "Electronic books"@en . "Mystery fiction" . "\"A pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese American forensic chemist; an unsatisfiably adventurous young woman; one police officer based in fact (William H. \"Whiskey Bill\" Parker, later to become the groundbreaking chief of the LAPD), the other the product of Ellroy's inimitable imagination (Dudley Smith, arch villain of The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz). As their lives intertwine, we are given a story of war and of consuming romance, a searing expose of the Japanese internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation. In Perfidia, Ellroy delves more deeply than ever before into his characters' intellectual and emotional lives. But it has the full-strength, unbridled story-telling audacity that has marked all the acclaimed work of the \"Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction.\"\"--" . "\"A pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese American forensic chemist; an unsatisfiably adventurous young woman; one police officer based in fact (William H. \"Whiskey Bill\" Parker, later to become the groundbreaking chief of the LAPD), the other the product of Ellroy's inimitable imagination (Dudley Smith, arch villain of The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz). As their lives intertwine, we are given a story of war and of consuming romance, a searing expose of the Japanese internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation. In Perfidia, Ellroy delves more deeply than ever before into his characters' intellectual and emotional lives. But it has the full-strength, unbridled story-telling audacity that has marked all the acclaimed work of the \"Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction.\"\"--"@en . "Perfidia"@es . "Perfidia" . "Perfidia"@en . "History"@en . "Perfidia a novel" . "Perfidia a novel"@en . . . . "Historical fiction" . "Historical fiction"@en . . . "Downloadable e-Books"@en . . . . "Detective and mystery stories" . "Detective and mystery stories"@en . "Romans (teksten)" . . "... a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese American forensic chemist; an unsatisfiably adventurous young woman; one police officer based in fact (William H. \"Whiskey Bill\" Parker, later to become the groundbreaking chief of the LAPD), the other the product of Ellroy's inimitable imagination (Dudley Smith, arch villain of The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz). As their lives intertwine, we are given a story of war and of consuming romance, a searing expose of the Japanese internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation."@en . . . . . . "Perfidia Roman" . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . . . . . . . . "Detective and mystery fiction"@en . . . . . . "Perfidia : Roman" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Murder Investigation California Los Angeles Fiction." . . "Ellroy, James" . . "Police California Los Angeles Fiction." . . "Los Angeles, Calif." . . "Los Angeles (Calif.)" . "Historical Fiction." . . "World War (1939-1945)" . . . "Amerikanisches Englisch." . . "Detective and mystery stories, American." . . "LITERARY CRITICISM American General." . . "FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled." . . "Japanese Americans California Los Angeles Fiction." . . . . "Fiction." . . "Meurtre Enquêtes Roman." . . "Police." . . "Tagebuchroman." . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Literature." . . "Weltkrieg." . . "Mystery." . . "Hard-Boiled." . . "Murder Investigation Fiction." . . "World War, 1939-1945 California Los Angeles Fiction." . . "Kriminalroman." . . "Literary." . . "Murder Investigation." . .