The big nowhere Author Surname:Ellroy

The big nowhere Author Surname:EllroyThis novel is set in Los Angeles, the city of angels that has become the city of the Angel of Death. It is about communist witch hunts and about insanely violent killings which are terrorising the community.

Meet New York City as a city of hoodlum rats

With his diamond-sharp prose and artfully handled intrigue

East Harlem

he was MI6's top-secret agent in Nazi Germany from 1931 to 1939

When coincidence brings four strangers together

the Pope is banning books and branding works of art immoral

When Ellery discovers the body of the groom floating in the pool in the rain

The search leads him into an abyss of evil and he is warned that The Travelling Man will strike again

There is also the added enigma of a birthday party at the hotel involving characters who were connected with the dead woman

Detective Louise Rick has just taken on a challenging new job as head of the freshly created Mobile Task Unit

Sheridan Seymour

On the night of 22 December 1980