Perfidia
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Bennington Free Library - Mystery - 1st FloorFIC Mystery Ellroy JamesOn Shelf
Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - 1st FloorELLOn Shelf
Deborah Rawson Memorial Library - FictionFIC ELLOn Shelf
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701 pages ; 24 cm
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"A pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese American forensic chemist; an unsatisfiably adventurous young woman; one police officer based in fact (William H. "Whiskey Bill" Parker, later to become the groundbreaking chief of the LAPD), the other the product of Ellroy's inimitable imagination (Dudley Smith, arch villain of The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz). As their lives intertwine, we are given a story of war and of consuming romance, a searing expose of the Japanese internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation. In Perfidia, Ellroy delves more deeply than ever before into his characters' intellectual and emotional lives. But it has the full-strength, unbridled story-telling audacity that has marked all the acclaimed work of the "Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction.""--

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ellroy, J. (2014). Perfidia (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ellroy, James, 1955-. 2014. Perfidia. Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ellroy, James, 1955-. Perfidia Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ellroy, James. Perfidia First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

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