Destination: Morgue!

	First edition cover
Author	James Ellroy
Cover artist	Cover design by Chip Kidd; Cover images: Los Angeles Times Collection, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
Language	English
Subject	True crime
Genre	Short stories, novellas, crime fiction
Publisher	Vintage Books
Publication date	September 28, 2004
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	389 pp (first edition, trade paperback)
ISBN	1-4000-3287-3 (first edition, trade paperback)
OCLC	56415854
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3555.L6274 D47 2004

Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales is a 2004 collection of 12 short works by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy.^[1] Eight of the pieces are non-fiction crime reportage or essays that Ellroy originally wrote for GQ magazine, some of which are autobiographical (see also his memoir My Dark Places).^[2] Also included are three new novellas ("Hollywood Fuck Pad," "Hot-Prowl Rape-O," and "Jungle Jihad") and one short story previously published in GQ ("The Trouble I Cause"). Earlier GQ pieces by Ellroy can be found in the 1999 collection Crime Wave.^[3]

Part I: Crime Culture / Memoir
- "Balls to the Wall"
- "Where I Get My Weird Shit"
- "Stephanie"
- "Grave Doubt"
- "My Life as a Creep"
- "The D.A."
- "Little Sleazer and the Mail-Sex Mama"
- "I've Got the Goods"
- "The Trouble I Cause"
Part II: Rick Loves Donna
- "Hollywood Fuck Pad"
- "Hot-Prowl Rape-O"
- "Jungle Jihad"

References

^ Abbott, Kate (May 18, 2015). "Destination morgue: James Ellroy spills LA's crime scene secrets – in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
^ Sallis, James (September 28, 2004). "On board Ellroy's dark express". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
^ Krewson, John (March 29, 2002). "James Ellroy: Crime Wave". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 9, 2018.

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[pictures-1] Abbott, Kate (May 18, 2015). "Destination morgue: James Ellroy spills LA's crime scene secrets – in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved May 9, 2018.

[express-2] Sallis, James (September 28, 2004). "On board Ellroy's dark express". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 9, 2018.

[crimewave-3] Krewson, John (March 29, 2002). "James Ellroy: Crime Wave". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 9, 2018.

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v t e Works by James Ellroy
Stand-alone	Brown's Requiem (1981) Clandestine (1982) Killer on the Road (1986) Widespread Panic (2021) The Enchanters (2023)
Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy	Blood on the Moon (1984) Because the Night (1984) Suicide Hill (1986)
L.A. Quartet	The Black Dahlia (1987) The Big Nowhere (1988) L.A. Confidential (1990) White Jazz (1992)
Underworld USA Trilogy	American Tabloid (1995) The Cold Six Thousand (2001) Blood's a Rover (2009)
The L.A. Quintet	Perfidia (2014) This Storm (2019) The Enchanters (2023)
Short story collections	Hollywood Nocturnes (1994) Crime Wave (1999) Destination: Morgue! (2004)
Non-fiction	My Dark Places (1996) The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women (2010) LAPD '53 (2015)
Original screenplays	Dark Blue (2002) Street Kings (2008) Rampart (2011)
Film adaptations	Cop (1988) L.A. Confidential (1997) Brown's Requiem (1998) The Black Dahlia (2006)
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