Others are based on real life people like William ‘Whiskey Bill’ Parker, another LAPD officer who would go on to become the chief of police. Quartet, and Kay Lake from The Black Dahlia. Many of the characters are ones you used in other books like Dudley Smith, a corrupt police officer who was a large part of the L.A. “ Perfidia begins the day before Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese. “What are your impressions of Perfidia? Please be brief.” You recently published a new novel called Perfidia that you state is the start of a new Second L.A. You wrote a second autobiography in which you admitted that much of what you wrote about your state of mind in the first book wasn’t true. You investigated the death of your mother with an ex-cop and published the results as a memoir. You wrote a trilogy called Underworld USA that followed bad men doing bad things in the shadows of recent American history. You started with a fictionalized version of the Black Dahlia case, and one of the books, L.A. You became a writer and used your fascination with true crime and post-war Los Angeles to create what you called the L.A.
You let your rich fantasy life rule you and with no ambition or discipline you became a homeless drunk and drug addict in your teens. You frequently dreamed of scenarios in which you could save damsels in distress. “You are haunted by the unsolved murder of your mother which occurred when you were a child and led you to become obsessed with crime and women. Kemper, I hear that you are somewhat familiar with me?” 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. In Perfidia, Ellroy delves more deeply than ever before into his characters' intellectual and emotional lives.
As their lives intertwine, we are given a story of war and of consuming romance, a searing exposé of the Japanese internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation. "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. 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. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. The United States teeters on the edge of war.
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