Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales is a 2004 collection of 12 short works by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy. Eight of the pieces are non-fiction crime reportage or essays that Ellroy originally wrote for GQ magazine, some of which are autobiographical (see also his memoir My Dark Places). Also included are three new novellas ("Hollywood Fuck Pad", "Hot-Prowl Rape-O", and "Jungle Jihad") and one short story previously published in GQ ("The Trouble I Cause").

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  • ISBN 1-4000-3287-3 (first edition, trade paperback)
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  • Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales is a 2004 collection of 12 short works by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy. Eight of the pieces are non-fiction crime reportage or essays that Ellroy originally wrote for GQ magazine, some of which are autobiographical (see also his memoir My Dark Places). Also included are three new novellas ("Hollywood Fuck Pad", "Hot-Prowl Rape-O", and "Jungle Jihad") and one short story previously published in GQ ("The Trouble I Cause"). Earlier GQ pieces by Ellroy can be found in the 1999 collection Crime Wave.
  • DESTINATION: MORGUE! è una raccolta di pezzi scritti da James Ellroy per GQ e di racconti inediti. L'edizione Bompiani del 2003 è di fatto la prima edizione mondiale della raccolta, in quanto quella in inglese (con varianti nel contenuto) esce solo nel 2004. Il contenuto dell'edizione italiana è: Dove vado a pescarle (Where I Get My Weird Shit) I miei anni morbosi (My Life as a Creep) Io la so lunga (I've Got the Goods) Let’s twist again (11mo pezzo dell'edizione inglese di Crime Wave, assente dall'edizione italiana Corpi da reato) Danny Getchell, guai a gogo (The Trouble I Cause) Pugni e sangre (Balls to the Wall, a.k.a. Blood Sport) Padre, figlio e spirito di Clinton (The Father, the Son and Bubba's Ghost) Il fattore O’Reilly (Bill O'Reilly Is All Folked-Up) Pidocchietto (Little Sleazer and the Mail-Sex Mama) Il procuratore distrettuale (The D.A. ) Stephanie (Stephanie) Troiaio a Hollywood (Hollywood Fuck Pad) Rispetto al volume in inglese, l'edizione italiana presenta in più i pezzi 4, 7 e 8. Risultano assenti, invece: Grave Doubt (pubblicato da Bompiani, nella collana "asSaggi" col titolo "Dubbio letale") Hot-Prowl Rape-O (pubblicato da Bompiani col titolo "Scasso con stupro") Jungletown Jihad (pubblicato da Bompiani nella collana "Letteraria" col titolo "Jungletown Jihad")
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  • Cover design by Chip Kidd
    Cover images: ''Los Angeles Times'' Collection, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
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  • Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales is a 2004 collection of 12 short works by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy. Eight of the pieces are non-fiction crime reportage or essays that Ellroy originally wrote for GQ magazine, some of which are autobiographical (see also his memoir My Dark Places). Also included are three new novellas ("Hollywood Fuck Pad", "Hot-Prowl Rape-O", and "Jungle Jihad") and one short story previously published in GQ ("The Trouble I Cause").
  • DESTINATION: MORGUE! è una raccolta di pezzi scritti da James Ellroy per GQ e di racconti inediti. L'edizione Bompiani del 2003 è di fatto la prima edizione mondiale della raccolta, in quanto quella in inglese (con varianti nel contenuto) esce solo nel 2004.
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