Gross least, richer and more complex than the trilogy Lloyd Hopkins ("Blood Moon", "A Cause of the Night", "La Colline suicide").
Less mystical and more affordable than the "Black Dahlia".
More punchy as the "Big Nowhere" and far more readable than "White Jazz".
This novel combines the best of black literature Ellroy with very, very little waste ...
LAC is a vertiginous dive in the Los Angeles of the early 50s and it is difficult to escape the canvas as the author weaves the narration is perfectly controlled and the cast of characters encountered quite fascinating.
Magistral, simply.