The Big Nowhere

By James Ellroy

Subjects: Crime, American Detective and mystery stories, Crime in fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Crime, fiction, Upshaw, danny (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, Mystery & Detective - General, Communism and society, Fiction - Mystery/ Detective

Description: The author of *The Black Dahlia* presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In *The Big Nowhere*, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place.