Cruising for Danger with James Ellroy
James
Ellroy is the most dangerous man in fiction, sometimes even to himself.
In
this, the novel that made him what he is, Ellroy beats himself up over the
real-life death of his mother by recasting her as the mystery woman of the
novel’s title and delving into both the gruesome facts of her torture-slaying
and the dark obsession she triggers in our two main male characters, Ellroy stand-ins
both. It was Ellroy’s seventh crime-fiction novel; this time it was personal:
