Clandestine (novel)
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| Preceded by | Brown's Requiem (1981) | |
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| Followed by | Blood on the Moon (1984) | |
Clandestine is a 1982
crime novel by American author James Ellroy.[1] Set in 1951,[2] the protagonist is ambitious LAPD Officer Fred Underhill. Ellroy dedicated
Clandestine, "to Penny Nagler".
Underhill is a young cop on the rise working out of the
Wilshire station. He covers the beat with his partner Herbert Lawton "Wacky" Walker, a World War II veteran with a Medal of Honor, a drinking problem, and an obsession with death. Underhill and Walker discover the mutilated and strangled corpse of a young secretary. The trail leads to other murders, new and old, and a beautiful crippled district attorney
named Lorna Weinberg.
Several characters from Ellroy's later L.A. Quartet series first appear here, including police lieutenant Dudley Smith, Michael Breuning, and Richard Carlisle.
Clandestine earned Ellroy an
Edgar Award nomination from Mystery Writers of America in 1982.[3]
References
- ISBN 9781414410487. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
- ^ "Clandestine, by James Ellroy". The Irish Times. 30 January 1999. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ISBN 9780787675394.
Works by James Ellroy | |
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| Stand-alone |
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| Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy |
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| L.A. Quartet |
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| Underworld USA Trilogy |
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| The L.A. Quintet |
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| Short story collections |
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| Non-fiction |
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| Original screenplays |
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