num_pages: 416
description: Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein is in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord and mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect. Told with his trademark blistering and relentless prose-poetry, White Jazz is a bleak and powerful nightmare of a crime thriller, and a fitting conclusion to the LA Quartet. It is one of the greatest crime writers of all time, writing at his best.
language: English
title: White Jazz
titlecomplete: White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
characters: Johnny Duhamel, George Stemmons, Dudley Smith, Edmund Exley, Lieutenant Dave Klein
genres: American, Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery, Fiction, Detective, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 8865
places: Los Angeles, California
series: L.A. Quartet
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Falcon Award
publisher: Arrow