by James Ellroy · Ediciones B · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440664075
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«Réquiem por Brown» is the crime novel by James Ellroy, published by Ediciones B in hardcover (416 pages, in Spanish).
Fritz Brown, expelled from the Los Angeles police and a former alcoholic, works as a detective with an obsession for classical music. An eccentric golf caddie hires him to watch over the wealthy furrier with whom his attractive cellist sister lives. The case takes Brown from golf clubs to the world of pornography and illegal gambling.
It is James Ellroy's first novel. It was originally published as Brown's Requiem in 1981 and was nominated for the Shamus Award in 1982. This Spanish edition appeared in May 1996.
For readers of crime fiction and American hard-boiled, as well as for those who want to discover James Ellroy's first novel.
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).
