James Franco has clamed he is set to adapt James Ellroy's American Tabloid. The 1995 novel from the LA Confidential author is a fictionalised account of five years in the lives of three men involved ...

Though it has been attached previously to the likes of Bruce Willis and Tom Hanks (who most recently worked to develop it as a series for HBO), the 1995 novel American Tabloid is now in the hands of ...

Because he writes books laced with profanity and graphic descriptions of violence, James Ellroy isn’t a writer to everyone’s taste. He is nonetheless the most intellectually ambitious writer of crime ...

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels--*The Black Dahlia*, *The Big Nowhere*, *L.A. Confidential*, and *White Jazz*--were international best sellers. His novel ...

Murders abound in new novels from James Ellroy, Joe R. Lansdale, Laura McHugh and Leonardo Padura. By Sarah Weinman The Los Angeles crime novelist, whose new book is “This Storm,” is no fan of Cormac ...