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L.A.Noir: the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy - Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, Suicide Hill Ebook FREEL.A.NOIR: THE LLOYD HOPKINS TRILOGY - BLOOD ON THE MOON, BECAUSE THE NIGHT, SUICIDE HILL EBOOK James Ellroy | 848 pages | 02 May 1998 | Cornerstone | 9780099255093 | English | London, United Kingdom Because the Night (novel) - Wikipedia Because the Night is a crime fiction novel written by James Ellroy. Released in L.A.Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy - Blood on the Moon, it is the second installment of a trilogy that is either titled " Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy " after its main character, or "L. A Noir", after the hardcover omnibus that was released in containing all three books in the trilogy. Because the Night features Hopkins investigating a triple murder at a liquor store. Nothing was stolen, leading Hopkins to suspect that the crime was a thrill killing. His investigation crosses paths with psychiatrist John Havilland, who uses drugs and professional expertise to manipulate a small group of followers into crime and debauchery. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the novel. For the song, see Because the Because the Night. This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. Learn how and when to remove these template messages. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced Because the Night may be challenged and removed. Some of this article's listed sources may not be reliable. Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. June Learn how and when to remove this template message. Dewey Decimal. Works by James Ellroy. Brown's Requiem Clandestine Killer on the Road Confidential White Jazz Perfidia This Storm Dark Blue Street Kings Rampart Cop L. Hidden categories: Articles needing additional references from June All articles needing additional references Articles lacking reliable references from June All articles lacking reliable references Articles with multiple maintenance issues All stub articles. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Blood on the Moon Suicide Hill This article about a crime novel of the s Because the Night a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. Blood on the Moon (novel) - Wikipedia Blood on the Moon is a crime novel by James Ellroy. It was followed by Because the Night and L.A.Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy - Blood on the Moon Hill Although the novels are written in multiple perspectives and narrated omnisciently, the main character in all three is Lloyd Hopkins. It is during this riot that Hopkins kills his first man, a deranged armory sergeant who was hunting down and killing African Americans. Eighteen years later Hopkins is now a sergeant with the LAPD and has the highest number of arrests of any officer in the department's history. He is considered a genius by many of his associates for his uncanny ability to make intuitive leaps of logic when tracking down criminals. Soon his abilities are put to the test when he investigates the brutal murder of a woman who was disemboweled in her apartment. Hopkins quickly deduces that the person responsible for this murder has in fact been killing women since the late s, but has never been caught because he always changes his modus operandi. A subplot of the novel involves Hopkins' relationship with his family. He adores his three daughters and deeply loves his wife, though he is chronically unfaithful to her. Because the Night wife loves Lloyd, but begins to realize that his habits are not healthy for their children, particularly his propensity for telling them about the cases that he has worked on. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Dewey Decimal. Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 5 June The Guardian. The New York Times. October 13, Works by James Ellroy. Brown's Requiem Clandestine Killer on the Road Confidential White Jazz Perfidia This Storm Because the Night Dark Blue Street Kings Rampart Cop L. Hidden categories: Articles needing additional references from June All articles needing additional references All stub articles. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Suicide Hill file. Download as PDF Printable version. First edition cover. Clandestine Because the Night This article about a crime novel of the s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. L.A. Noir by James Ellroy Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Noir by James Ellroy. Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — L. Noir Lloyd Hopkins omnibus by James Ellroy. A hardcover compendium of three detective novels by the author of L. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published June 1st by Mysterious Press first published More Details Original Title. Lloyd Hopkins omnibus. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about L. Noirplease sign up. Is this book or any part of it worth reading? Keith Steinbaum Yes, but with the qualifier that you should want to have an interest in the history of Los Angeles. Having grown up in L. See 1 question about L. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of L. Jul 29, Darwin8u rated it liked it Shelves: americancrime-noirfiction. Noir is essentially the Lloyd Hopkins trilogy. Here are my reviews for the three novels: 1. Aug 01, Patrick O'Neil rated it really liked it. James Ellroy's L. First published in the early '80's, Ellroy's Los Angeles Nior trilogy is a macabre homage to ultra violent LA cops, and insanity of the times. His protagonist, Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, is out of his fucking gourd. He's a racist, womanizing, homophobe, cold blooded killer and adulterous father of three daughters. But there's a beauty in the juxtaposition of repulsion and collaborat James Ellroy's L. But there's a beauty in the juxtaposition of repulsion and collaboration the reader feels for Hopkins. You hate him, yet you grudgingly admire his Suicide Hill to do whatever the hell he wants. He is the kind of cop the tabloids love to canonize, and the equally corrupt politicians blame for all of society's problems. The city of Los Angeles, the streets of Hollywood, and the prevailing deterioration of urban society of the 's all play integral parts of the plot and Ellroy exploits the shit out of them. Although I don't consider these three books to be Ellory's best, I did find it interesting to read his earlier Because the Night in comparison to his later more successful novels, and to take note of where and how he honed his craft. I can see where his clipped official "dialogue" started to take form. Along with his unbelievably violent images, his Because the Night street lingo, and use of police stats — material which became the basis for such work as American Tabloid — a book I feel is one of his best — and of course the successful L. Yet, if you can't put aside the repulsiveness of Ellroy's love affair with all things grotesquely macho and conservatively right-wing, then don't read this book — it will just piss you off. Which I am sure Ellroy would be happy to know that it did. View 2 comments. The more I read James Ellroy, the more I'm convinced he's one of the late 20th century greats when it comes to crime Suicide Hill - sensational trio of cop books set in Suicide Hill early 80s, with gruesome murders and violence a plenty; and above all Ellroy's style punching through. May 26, Luke rated it really liked it. Great crime. Just straight-up and true, gritty, honest and brutally-brilliant crime fiction. Ellroy's Lloyd Hopkins Because the Night trilogy does it again. L.A.Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy - Blood on the Moon 17, Debbie rated it really liked it Shelves: fictionnoircrime. As in many of the Ellroy books I've read, the cops are as dark and twisted and the criminals they pursue. They all are driven by their own demons and are not often likable characters. Lloyd Hopkins is no exception. His past molded him into the man he has become - a brilliant cr This book includes all three volumes of Ellroy's Lloyd Hopkins trilogy Blood on the Moon, Because the Night and Suicide Hill. His past molded Because the Night into the man he has become - a brilliant crimefighter who often resorts to unacceptable tactics in pursuit of his prey. His home life is beginning to come apart at the seams and his adulterous behavior taints his marriage and his career. No one has put the L.A.Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy - Blood on the Moon together until Hopkins gets involved. His pursuit of the Hollywood Slaughterer eventually leads him into a life-threatening situation from which he emerges a haunted man. This time Because the Night is sent to investigate the disappearance of Suicide Hill Herzog, a hero cop who has disappeared.
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