Destination (33 page)
James Ellroy
Destination: MORGUE!
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels
âThe Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere,
L.A. Confidential
, and
White Jazzâ
were international bestsellers.
American Tabloid
was
Time
's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir
My Dark Places
was a
Time
Best Book of the Year and a
New York Times
Notable Book for 1996; his most recent novel,
The Cold Six
Thousand,
was a
New York Times
Notable Book and a
Los Angeles Times
Best Book of the Year for 2001. He lives on the California coast.
Also by James Ellroy
The Cold Six Thousand
Crime Wave
My Dark Places
American Tabloid
Hollywood Nocturnes
White Jazz
L.A. Confidential
The Big Nowhere
The Black Dahlia
Killer on the Road
Suicide Hill
Because the Night
Blood on the Moon
Clandestine
Brown's Requiem
A VINTAGE ORIGINAL, SEPTEMBER 2004
Copyright © 2004 by James Ellroy
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
“The Trouble I Cause,” “Hollywood Fuck Pad,” “Hot-Prowl Rape-O,” and
“Jungletown Jihad” are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places,
and incidents in those stories are the product of the author's imagination or used
fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead,
is entirely coincidental.
The following pieces were published in
GQ
magazine in slightly different form:
“Balls to the Wall” (published under the title “Bloodsport,” July 2000), “Where I
Get My Weird Shit” (September 2002), “Stephanie” (January 2003), “Grave
Doubt” (June 2000), “My Life as a Creep” (October 1999), “The D.A.” (July
2002), “Little Sleazer and the Mail-Sex Mama” (March 2002), “I've Got the
Goods” (March 2000), and “The Trouble I Cause” (March 2000).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file.
eISBN: 978-0-307-42554-6
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