mrt wrote:
> In Dick Contino's Blues he achieved a kind of
classicism, a hardboiled style that did not
> overwhelm the reader.
I greatly appreciated the scope and intricacy of his LA
trilogy, and liked the word play of White Jazz, but I agree
that Dick Contino's Blues is Ellroy's finest moment. It seems
like a distillation of all the themes he touched on in The
Big Nowhere, Dahlia and other works, but in such a concise,
compact, and well-crafted version. It is a magnificent
novella all around.
Keith Logan
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