02298cam a2200409 i 4500 982082148 TxAuBib 20230919120000.0 230427s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023005542 9780593320440 hardcover 0593320441 hardcover (OCoLC)1395918041 TxAuBib rda Ellroy, James, 1948- The enchanters : a novel / James Ellroy. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. 431 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Los Angeles, August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O.: tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. ... Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe's death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity"-- Provided by publisher. 20230919. Monroe, Marilyn 1926-1962 Death and burial Fiction. Kennedy, John F (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 Fiction. Hoffa, James R (James Riddle), 1913- Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) Police Department Fiction. Private investigators Fiction. Criminal investigation Fiction. Conspiracies Fiction. Nineteen sixties Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) Social conditions 20th century Fiction. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif) Social conditions 20th century Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Historical fiction. fast