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Almost hits Inez, because she calls him a coward, but he doesn´t want to admit that she´s right

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Ellroy is not a big fan of closure. "Closure is bullshit"

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No figurative language

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He doesn't use a lot of descriptions compared to Raymond Chandler

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Will never marry Inez because she is Mexican

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Looking for his dad, he findes other women getting abused by men.

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"Exley i know you. You
don´t give a damn about justice, you just care about yourself."

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Ellroy - Short and direct sentences
His editor wanted him to shorten his story by several 100 pages - therefore he deleted uncessesary words and created a unique way of writing

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Ed makes a plan with a fellow cop

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He is traumatized, because he couldn't do anything when his mother got killed - he was only 16 years old, and couldn't stop it

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"Bud kept looking, kept waking to the sound of women screaming. He always investigated; it was always just wisps of noise."

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Does everything by the book

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"His son Officer Wendell Whit, LAPD - decided to kill him." - he decided to kill his dad.

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- and therefore he is really obsessed with finding the murderer of his mother

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He saw his mother get beaten with a tire iron, by his dad.

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(compared to Raymond Chandler)