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James Ellroy THE INTERROGATION JAMES ELLROY HE’S THE KING OF L.A. NOIR E. ns CE i FICTION BUT FOR HIS NEW L C ri E n BOOK – LAPD ’53 – THE gE tion 2.0 tion 2.0 OUTSPOKEN AUTHOR U ttrib a OF L.A. CONFIDENTIAL ons MM Co & THE BLACK DAHLIA IS E ativ E HE Cr t EXPLORING THE REAL- r DE n LIFE COPS AND CRIME OF ED U s . U ons CALIFORNIA IN THE ’50s MM o C ia – AND WITH IT, SOME MED iki OF HIS OWN DEMONS... By MATT GLASBY portrait: Mark Coggins / W Mark Coggins portrait: 102 CRIME SCENE CSI01.feat_interogation.indd 102 8/29/15 8:10 AM CSI01.feat_interogation.indd 103 8/29/15 8:10 AM THE INTERROGATION JAMES ELLROY obody understands the historical LAPD, an agency LA’s dark past like that’s the greatest in the United five tall tales James Ellroy. The States, and one that I admire “premier lunatic greatly. You can put it this QUINTESSENTIAL ELLROY... of American letters” way: a couple of, well, three was born in the City judicious ass-kickings by the CLANDESTINE (1982) Of Angels in 1948, LAPD back in my wayward nominated for an Edgar award, Ellroy’s second Nlost his mother, Jean Hilliker, to an as-yet- youth lead to me giving up novel – which, with its uncaught murderer in nearby El Monte, crime and becoming the tale of a strangled young in 1958 and his sprawling detective novels, great writer that I am today. secretary, was surely inspired in part by his from Brown’s Requiem (1981) to Perfidia mother’s murder – lays (2014), are steeped in its sullied glamour. How did you settle on 1953 the groundwork for his Ellroy’s latest publication is LAPD ’53, as the year for the book? La Quartet to come, by introducing the characters of Dudley smith, Michael written in conjunction with retired officer We were going through the breuning and richard Carlisle. Glynn Martin of the Los Angeles Police photographs of other decades, Museum (laphs.org), a collection of vintage and we found a preponderance THE BLACK crime-scene photographs from the archives of the great photos available to DAHLIA (1987) accompanied by Ellroy’s characteristically us were from 1953. This allowed both inspired by and amphetamised text to shade in the backstory. me to focus my text on 1953, incorporating the unsolved real-life murder of 22-year- After huge door-stoppers such as the 650- a pivotal year for my LA old Elizabeth short in 1947 page Blood’s A Rover (2009), LAPD ’53 is a Quartet books [The Black (and dedicated, darkly, mere stocking filler, but the chilly candour Dahlia (1987), The Big to Ellroy’s mother as ‘this valediction in blood’), the of the pictures combined with Ellroy’s Nowhere (1988), LA first part of the La Quartet is a heady mix noir-inflected not-quite-fiction, makes for Confidential (1990) and of noir and historical detail, with hardboiled a feverish read. Some entries show stoic White Jazz (1992)] the early LapD cops and bad-time gals. cops such as LAPD chief William H Parker pages of LA Confidential, inspecting bullet-holes in motel hallways, specifically, enabling me to Coast rider: a member of the dragging bodies from desolate ravines, and write about the great LAPD Californian Highway Patrol surveys L.A. CONFIDENTIAL the LA landscape in 1953. (1990) digging up shattered bones in back gardens. Chief William H Parker the book that brought Less than angelic: Russell Crowe and Ellroy firmly into the Others depict perps lying dead on drugstore [also the star of Perfidia], Kim Basinger relax in LA Confidential. floors. One section details the aftermath of and think up appropriately small house, that’s the LA county jail system. More than anything else, Joseph Wambaugh’s mainstream, not least when adapted into a a suicide: a hanged man making his first and entertaining, inflammatory But more than anything else I just read books. books. His greatest novel is The Choirboys movie by Curtis Hanson final bow, resplendent in a woman’s bathing and engaging text to capture the history You call the LAPD the most storied Lot of crime novels... [1975], an early novel, but his most instructive and brian Helgeland, this costume. But all capture that crystalline of the events portrayed in the photographs, department in the world – why is that? work of art, to me, was his first novel, The twisting tale flits between celebrity look-alikes, upscale sex parties, moment between crime and resolution, which I liken to bebop, a minor obsession Because it’s in LA, because the movie biz was Do people underestimate the importance New Centurions [1971], which is a fabulous scurrilous scandal magazines and a deeply if indeed there is a resolution, and all show of mine, and film noir, a major one. here, because the LAPD had an acrimonious of reading in you finding your vocation? primer on street humour and anecdotes. corrupt police department with ease. LA as it was – and is, in Ellroy’s imagination. relationship with many local newspapers Let me put it this way. Between the fall The entire book is anecdotal, it’s just a It’s a period he knows better than anyone. Why do we find crime-scene pictures for years, because of the Dragnet TV show, [autumn] of 1966, when I was 18, and the marvellous crime book. AMERICAN A period he owns (just ask him). So, what like these so fascinating? because of the great police novels written by summer of 1969, when I was 21, I broke TABLOID (1995) makes a great police photograph and what Because it ain’t us, brother. We didn’t get yours truly, because of Joseph Wambaugh, the into houses in Hancock Park – a rich You’ve said before that “The LA of that Moving on from straight makes a great police novel? “Brother,” he shot on some roadside. I don’t think either father of the American police novel, who neighbourhood on the edge of Hollywood period is mine and nobody else’s. If you noir to an ambitious says in that hellfire growl, “You know it when of the pretty men on this phonecall here served with the LAPD from 1960-1974. He – with the express purpose of stealing pills wrote about this period before me, I have mash-up of literary, pulp and historical novels, Ellroy you see it. You know it when you read it...” are going to spend four days looking for really invented the modern police novel… out of medicine chests, and food, and sniffing taken it away from you.” so have you taken established his Underworld a woman’s bathing suit in which to hang the undergarments of the girls I was obsessed it away from Wambaugh? Usa trilogy with this five- The LAPD’s presence is marbled ourselves and be the topic of light conversation Which do you feel have had the most with, the rich girls. It was easy, by the way, to It’s mine, brother, the preponderance of critical part alternate version of the calamitous events leading up to the Dallas throughout your life and work – how like this 60 years in the future – but as you effect on your writing: crime novels, do, back in those days, for a variety of reasons. opinion in Britain, in Los Angeles, in America EUM 2015 assassination of president John F kennedy do you feel about it as an organisation? know, brother, men will go to any lengths the crimes you committed, or the s I might have done this 20 times total, and and around the world states that case quite in november 1963 and taking in the Cia- Well, of course, the books that I write spotlight to be HUNG! crimes that were committed upon you? I would stay inside, at the outset, half an plainly. Wambaugh wrote about a later Los sponsored bay of pigs invasion of Cuba. CE MU i There were no crimes committed upon me. L hour per visit, so let’s just round that off Angeles Police Department and a later LA. po I can’t think of one... s to 10 hours of my lifetime engaged in this MY DARK pursuit. I never got caught at it. There were LAPD chief William H Parker features PLACES (1996) ELE There was the murder of your mother... many days when I spent more than 10 hours heavily in LAPD ’53, what’s his appeal? While his troubled ang upbringing had already “TruTH be ToLD, I goT TALenT on Well the murder of my mother took place a day reading books in public libraries, so the He’s the greatest American policemen of the informed much of his os LoAn from goD. I HAve A sTurDY in the San Gabriel Valley, it wasn’t even preponderance of my education – even my 20th Century and if you read biographical fiction, Ellroy took the © L opportunity to pen a LA. In any case, I dislike the idea of t criminal education – was spent reading accounts of his career I think you might come H true-crime memoir that HeArT, I HAve A sTrong WILL To crimes committed upon me, I don’t books not doing these Mickey Mouse to that conclusion as well. Look for him as rig saw him investigating feel myself as a victim. Also, dare I say Y house-breaks or shop-lifting from stores. the hero of not only Perfidia, my most recent the unsolved murder of his mother survIve AnD I Love To WrITe” it, the crimes I committed were very, op That’s the point I wanna make here.
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