The Big Nowhere

The Big Nowhere is a 1988 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy, the second of the L.A. Quartet, a series of novels set in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles. What begins in this novel as two separate tales eventually twists together into one, centered around the efforts of a LA Sheriff's Deputy to capture a brutal sex murderer while serving, somewhat reluctantly, as a decoy for a set-up to catch Communists in Hollywood. This young deputy, Danny Upshaw, f... more

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  • Sep 1988

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James Ellroy

James Ellroy (born Lee Earle Ellroy on March 4, 1948) is an American crime writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a so-called "telegraphic" prose style of his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences. For instance: They sent...

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