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L.A. Quartet, the Glossary

The L.A. Quartet is a sequence of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles.^[1]

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Novels by James Ellroy

Aaron Eckhart

Aaron Edward Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is an American actor.

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All-points bulletin

An all-points bulletin (APB) is an electronic information broadcast sent from one sender to a group of recipients, to rapidly communicate an important message.

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American Tabloid

American Tabloid is a 1995 novel by James Ellroy that chronicles the events surrounding three rogue American law enforcement officers from November 22, 1958, through November 22, 1963.

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Amphetamine (contracted from alpha-methylphenethylamine) is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), narcolepsy, and obesity.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.

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Asiatic-Pacific theater

The Asiatic-Pacific Theater was the theater of operations of U.S. forces during World War II in the Pacific War during 1941–1945.

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Attorney general

In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general (attorneys general) or attorney-general (AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government.

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Attorney General of California

The attorney general of California is the state attorney general of the Government of California.

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Battle of Chavez Ravine

The Battle of Chavez Ravine refers to resistance to the government acquisition of land largely owned by Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles' Chavez Ravine.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States.

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Black Dahlia

Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 –, 1947), known as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 1947.

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Bloody Christmas (1951)

Bloody Christmas was the severe beating of seven civilians by members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on December 25, 1951.

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Brenda Allen

Brenda Allen (aka Marie Mitchell) was an American madam based in Los Angeles, California, whose arrest in 1948 triggered a scandal that led to the attempted reform of the Los Angeles Police Department (L.A.P.D.). Allen received police protection due to her relationship with Sergeant Elmer V. Jackson of the L.A.P.D.'s administrative vice squad, who reportedly was her lover.

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Brogue (accent)

A brogue is a regional accent or dialect, especially an Irish accent in English.

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Business magnate

A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the creation or ownership of multiple lines of enterprise.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader, and composer.

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Chastity

Chastity, also known as purity, is a virtue related to temperance.

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Chief of police

A chief of police (COP) is the title given to an appointed official or an elected one in the chain of command of a police department, particularly in North America.

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Clandestine (novel)

Clandestine is a 1982 crime novel by American author James Ellroy. L.A. Quartet and Clandestine (novel) are novels by James Ellroy and novels set in Los Angeles.

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Confidential (magazine)

Confidential was an American magazine considered a pioneer in scandal, gossip and exposé journalism.

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Construction

Construction is a general term meaning the art and science of forming objects, systems, or organizations.

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Containment

Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.

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Criminal conspiracy

In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime at some time in the future.

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Danny DeVito

Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Darrell Sandeen

Darrell Sandeen (July 13, 1930 – January 22, 2009) was a character actor who specialized in playing menacing or offbeat people.

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David Conrad

David Conrad is an American actor.

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David Strathairn

David Russell Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor.

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Distinguished Service Cross (United States)

The Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) is the United States Army's second highest military decoration for soldiers who display extraordinary heroism in combat with an armed enemy force.

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District attorney

In the United States, a district attorney (DA), county attorney, county prosecutor, state's attorney, prosecuting attorney, commonwealth's attorney, state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area, typically a county or a group of counties.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Elmore Leonard

Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

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Eric Roberts

Eric Anthony Roberts (born April 18, 1956) is an American actor.

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Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library is a series of reprints of classic literature, primarily from the Western canon.

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Gambling

Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted.

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Gossip magazine

A gossip magazine, also referred to as a tabloid magazine, is a magazine that features scandalous stories about the personal lives of celebrities and other well-known individuals.

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Governor

A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative.

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Graham Beckel

Graham Stuart Beckel (born December 22, 1949) is an American character actor.

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Grand Central Publishing

Grand Central Publishing is a book publishing imprint of Hachette Book Group, originally established in 1970 as Warner Books when Kinney National Company acquired the Paperback Library.

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Guy Pearce

Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an Australian actor.

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Hollywood, Los Angeles

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.

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Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist and pilot.

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Internal affairs (law enforcement)

Internal affairs (often known as IA) is a division of a law enforcement agency that investigates incidents and possible suspicions of criminal and professional misconduct attributed to members of the parent force.

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Jack Dragna

Jack Ignatius Dragna (born Ignazio Dragna,; April 18, 1891 – February 23, 1956) was a Sicilian-American Mafia member, entrepreneur and Black Hander who was active in both Italy and the United States in the 20th century.

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James Cromwell

James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American actor and activist.

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James Ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.

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Johnny Stompanato

John Stompanato Jr. (October 10, 1925 – April 4, 1958) was a United States Marine and gangster who became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen.

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Josh Hartnett

Joshua Daniel Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor.

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Josh Hopkins

William Joshua Hopkins (born September 12, 1970) is an American actor.

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Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor.

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Kiefer Sutherland

Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born 21 December 1966) is a Canadian actor and musician.

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Kim Basinger

Kimila Ann Basinger (born December 8, 1953) is an American actress.

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L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential (1990) is a neo-noir novel by American writer James Ellroy, the third of his L.A. Quartet series. L.A. Quartet and L.A. Confidential are novels by James Ellroy and novels set in Los Angeles.

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L.A. Confidential (film)

L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime film directed, produced, and co-written by Curtis Hanson.

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Latin honors

Latin honours are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned.

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Lieutenant governor

A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction.

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Line of duty death

A line of duty death (LODD) is a death in the fire service or the police service while on duty.

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List of Jesuit educational institutions

The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) in the Catholic Church have founded and managed a number of educational institutions, including the notable secondary schools, colleges, and universities listed here.

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List of spymasters

A spymaster is a leader of a group of spies or an intelligence agency.

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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), officially the County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, is a law enforcement agency serving Los Angeles County, California.

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Los Angeles Police Department

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Melissa George

Melissa Suzanne George (born 6 August 1976) is an Australian and American actress.

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Member of congress

A member of congress (MOC), also known as a congressman or congresswoman, is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature.

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

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Mickey Cohen

Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen (September 4, 1914 – July 29, 1976) was an American gangster based in Los Angeles and boss of the Cohen crime family during the mid-20th century.

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Mike Starr (actor)

Mike Starr (born July 29, 1950) is an American character actor.

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Motel

A motel, also known as a motor hotel, motor inn or motor lodge, is a hotel designed for motorists, usually having each room entered directly from the parking area for motor vehicles rather than through a central lobby.

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Mysterious Press

The Mysterious Press is an American publishing company specializing in mystery fiction based in New York City.

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Noir fiction

Noir fiction (or roman noir) is a subgenre of crime fiction.

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Office of Strategic Services

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II.

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Omnibus edition

An omnibus edition or omnibus is a book containing multiple creative works by the same or, more rarely, different authors.

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Paolo Seganti

Paolo Seganti (born 20 May 1964 in Rovereto, Trentino, Italy), is an Italian actor and model, known for playing Damian Grimaldi in the CBS television soap opera As the World Turns.

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Paraguay

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America.

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Patrick Fischler

Patrick Fischler (born December 29, 1969) is an American character actor known for his roles as Jimmy Barrett on the drama series Mad Men, Dharma Initiative worker Phil on the drama series Lost and Detective Kenny No-Gun on the police drama Southland.

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Paul Guilfoyle

Paul Vincent Guilfoyle (born April 28, 1949) is an American television and film actor.

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Perfidia (Ellroy novel)

Perfidia is a historical romance and crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. L.A. Quartet and Perfidia (Ellroy novel) are novels by James Ellroy.

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Procuring (prostitution)

Procuring, pimping, or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or other sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer.

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Pruitt Taylor Vince

Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American character actor.

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Red Scare

A Red Scare is a form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of leftist ideologies in a society, especially communism.

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Revolver

A revolver is a repeating handgun that has at least one barrel and uses a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing.

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Robert Foxworth

Robert Foxworth is an American film, stage, and television actor.

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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor.

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Ron Rifkin

Ron Rifkin (born Saul M. Rifkin; October 31, 1939) is an American actor best known for his roles as Arvin Sloane on the spy drama Alias, Saul Holden on the drama Brothers & Sisters, and District Attorney Ellis Loew in L.A. Confidential.

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Russell Crowe

Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is a New Zealand-born actor, director and musician.

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Santa Barbara City College

Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) is a public community college in Santa Barbara, California.

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Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress.

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Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs.

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Sheriff

A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England where the office originated.

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Shinto

Shinto is a religion originating in Japan.

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Silencer (firearms)

A silencer, also known as a sound suppressor, suppressor, or sound moderator, is a muzzle device that suppresses the blast created when a gun (firearm or airgun) is discharged, thereby reducing the acoustic intensity of the muzzle report (sound of a gunshot) and jump, by modulating the speed and pressure of the propellant gas released from the muzzle.

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Sleepy Lagoon murder

The "Sleepy Lagoon murder" was the name that Los Angeles newspapers used to describe the death of José Gallardo Díaz, who was discovered unconscious and dying near a reservoir (dubbed the Sleepy Lagoon) with two stab wounds and a broken finger in Commerce, California, United States, on the morning of August 2, 1942.

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South Los Angeles

South Los Angeles, also known as South Central Los Angeles or simply South Central, is a region in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, lying mostly within the city limits of Los Angeles, south of downtown.

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Spade Cooley

Donnell Clyde "Spade" Cooley (December 17, 1910 – November 23, 1969) was an American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, television personality and convicted murderer.

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State attorney general

The state attorney general in each of the 50 U.S. states, of the federal district, or of any of the territories is the chief legal advisor to the state government and the state's chief law enforcement officer.

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Stream of consciousness

In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator.

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Tenor

A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.

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The Big Nowhere

The Big Nowhere is a 1988 crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy, the second of the L.A. Quartet, a series of novels set in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles. L.A. Quartet and the Big Nowhere are novels by James Ellroy.

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The Black Dahlia (film)

The Black Dahlia is a 2006 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Josh Friedman, based on the 1987 novel of the same name by James Ellroy, in turn inspired by the widely sensationalized murder of Elizabeth Short.

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The Black Dahlia (novel)

The Black Dahlia (1987) is a crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. L.A. Quartet and The Black Dahlia (novel) are novels by James Ellroy and novels set in Los Angeles.

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The Cold Six Thousand

The Cold Six Thousand is a 2001 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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This Storm (novel)

This Storm: A Novel is a 2019 historical fiction and crime fiction by American author James Ellroy. L.A. Quartet and This Storm (novel) are novels by James Ellroy and novels set in Los Angeles.

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Tijuana

Tijuana is the largest city in the state of Baja California, located on the northwestern Pacific Coast of Mexico.

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Tomas Arana

Tomas Arana is an American actor.

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Trust (law)

A trust is a legal relationship in which the owner of property (or any other transferable right) gives it to another person or entity, who must manage and use the property solely for the benefit of another designated person.

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Underworld USA Trilogy

The Underworld USA Trilogy is the collective name given to three novels by American crime author James Ellroy: American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009). L.A. Quartet and Underworld USA Trilogy are novels by James Ellroy.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.

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Warrant (law)

A warrant is generally an order that serves as a specific type of authorization, that is, a writ issued by a competent officer, usually a judge or magistrate, that permits an otherwise illegal act that would violate individual rights and affords the person executing the writ protection from damages if the act is performed.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Quartet

Also known as Dudley Liam Smith, L A Quartet, L. A. Quartet, LA Quartet, Los Angeles Quartet, The L.A. Quartet.

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See also

Novels by James Ellroy

References