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A novel is a 2019 historical fiction and crime fiction by american author james ellroy. And a lifelong sexual fixation on his promiscuous mother, strangled when he was 10. This book ostensibly is about the search for her killer. The first edition of the novel was published in 1996, and was written by james ellroy. You can read all your books for as long as a month for free and will get the latest books notifications. While its set before the black dahlia and many of the characters from the first l. The killer was never found, and the case was closed. Confidential, and white jazz, two of which were adapted into movies.
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