0
    • Elementary Secondary Higher Ed Common Reads
    0 0
    Download high-resolution image Look inside

    Brown's Requiem

    Author James Ellroy On Tour
    Look inside
    Paperback
    $17.00 US
    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Feb 16, 2021 | 336 Pages | 9780593312209
    Add to cart Add to list Exam Copies

    See Additional Formats
    In this debut, James Ellroy introduces the hyperreal L.A. we’ve come to know from his later work—a land of vice, corruption, and, in this case, golf.

    Fritz Brown is an ex-alcoholic PI with a taste for classical music who gets by as a repo man. But he finds himself in the rough when he takes the case of a trigger-happy golf caddie who wants to destroy the older man who stole his sister’s affection. As he tries to unravel this complex case with echoes from the distant past, Fritz Brown plunges into the seedy underbelly of L.A., where the hazards include arson, incest, and murder. Brown’s Requiem is, in the author’s own words, “a righteous private-eye novel: fast, profane, densely plotted.” It is the first work of a master in the making.
    © Marion Ettlinger
    JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s A Rover; and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is also the author of two other Freddy Otash novels, Widespread Panic and The Enchanters. He was awarded the 2022 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado. View titles by James Ellroy
    Praise for James Ellroy

    “[Ellroy] can make the night world of sleaze and street monsters come alive on the page.” —St. Louis Globe-Democrat

    “An undeniably artful frenzy of violence, guilt, and unappeased self- loathing. Ellroy’s crime fiction . . . represents a high mark in the genre.” —Newsday 

    “James Ellroy brings the mean streets of Los Angeles alive . . . with impressive panache." —Toronto Star

    About

    In this debut, James Ellroy introduces the hyperreal L.A. we’ve come to know from his later work—a land of vice, corruption, and, in this case, golf.

    Fritz Brown is an ex-alcoholic PI with a taste for classical music who gets by as a repo man. But he finds himself in the rough when he takes the case of a trigger-happy golf caddie who wants to destroy the older man who stole his sister’s affection. As he tries to unravel this complex case with echoes from the distant past, Fritz Brown plunges into the seedy underbelly of L.A., where the hazards include arson, incest, and murder. Brown’s Requiem is, in the author’s own words, “a righteous private-eye novel: fast, profane, densely plotted.” It is the first work of a master in the making.

    Author

    © Marion Ettlinger
    JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s A Rover; and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is also the author of two other Freddy Otash novels, Widespread Panic and The Enchanters. He was awarded the 2022 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado. View titles by James Ellroy

    Praise

    Praise for James Ellroy

    “[Ellroy] can make the night world of sleaze and street monsters come alive on the page.” —St. Louis Globe-Democrat

    “An undeniably artful frenzy of violence, guilt, and unappeased self- loathing. Ellroy’s crime fiction . . . represents a high mark in the genre.” —Newsday 

    “James Ellroy brings the mean streets of Los Angeles alive . . . with impressive panache." —Toronto Star

    Additional formats

    Other Books by this Author

    Related Articles

    Books for Women's History Month Book Covers: We the Women 9780593727027 NIGHT FLYER 9780593491188 Undaunted 9780525659143 DEAR MISS PERKINS 9780806543178
    General

    Books for Women’s History Month

    In honor of Women’s History Month in March, we are sharing books by women who have shaped history and have fought for their communities. Our list includes books about women who fought for racial justice, abortion rights, equality in the workplace, and ranges in topics from women in politics and prominent women in history to

    Read more

    Books for Women’s History Month

    General
    Subscribe

    Penguin Random House Higher Education

    © 2026 Penguin Random House

    Back to Top
    0
    Wish List (0)