L.A. confidential by James Ellroy

Author:James Ellroy
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Police Procedural, Literature, Crime & mystery, Mystery & Detective, Political, Hard-Boiled, Crime, Fiction, Police corruption - California - Los Angeles - Fiction, Suspense, Women Sleuths, Detective and mystery stories - lcsh, General, Genre Fiction, Crime & Thriller
ISBN: 9780099366713
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 1990-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

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Not home--Karen's.

He drove there woozy, keyed up. He started to feel the close-out: bad debts settled bad, a clean slate. He got the idea just like he got the idea to shake down Claude Dineen. He didn't say the words, didn't rehearse it. He turned the radio on so he'd keep the notion fresh.

A stern-voiced announcer:

". . . and the southside of Los Angeles is now the focus of the largest manhunt in California history. We repeat, an hour and a half ago, just after dawn, Raymond Coates, Tyrone Jones and Leroy Fontaine, the accused killers in the Nite Owl massacre case, escaped from the Hall of Justice Jail in downtown Los Angeles. The three had been moved to a minimum security cellblock to await requestioning and made their escape by the means of knotted-together bedsheets and a jump out a secondstory window. Here, recorded immediately after the escape, are the comments of Captain Russell Millard of the Los Angeles Police Department, co-supervisor of the Nite Owl investigation.

"'I . . . assume full responsibility for this incident. I was the one who ordered the three suspects sequestered in a minimum security unit. I . . . every effort will be made to recapture them with all due speed. I . .

Jack turned the radio off. Close-out: pious Russ Millard's career. Call-out: figure the whole Bureau yanked from bed for the dragnet. He yawned the rest of the way to Karen's, rang her bell seeing double.

Karen opened up. "Sweetie, _where have you been?_"

Jack plucked curlers out of her hair. "Will you marry me?"

Karen said, "Yes."

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