The Enchanters

The Enchanters
	U. S.
Author	James Ellroy
Language	English
Genre	Crime fiction, noir, historical fiction, historical romance
Publication place	United States

The Enchanters is a 2023 historical fiction and crime fiction by American author James Ellroy.

Plot

In Los Angeles, in 1962, ex-cop Freddy Otash investigates on Marilyn Monroe's death.^[1]

Reception

Caroll V. Bell of The Washington Post qualified it a "gritty whirlwind novel".^[2] Parul Sehgal of The New Yorker described a "powerful experience of blur distance and passage of time".^[3] Chris Vognar of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the book was "a vast improvement on the first, 2021's Widespread Panic, which often drowned in a sudsy sea of awkward alliteration".^[4]

Notes and references

^ Iglesias, Gabino (2023-09-13). "In 'The Enchanters' James Ellroy brings Freddy Otash into 1960s L.A." NPR. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
^ Bell, Caroll V. (2023-09-25). "Review | James Ellroy returns to L.A. with Hoffa, the Kennedys and Marilyn". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
^ Sehgal, Parul (2023-09-11). "What Happens When James Ellroy Gets Mixed Up with Marilyn Monroe?". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
^ Vognar, Chris (2023-09-08). "James Ellroy has his way with 1960s L.A. — and the corpse of Marilyn Monroe". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

External links

"James Ellroy". Retrieved 3 July 2019.

[1] Iglesias, Gabino (2023-09-13). "In 'The Enchanters' James Ellroy brings Freddy Otash into 1960s L.A." NPR. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

[2] Bell, Caroll V. (2023-09-25). "Review | James Ellroy returns to L.A. with Hoffa, the Kennedys and Marilyn". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

[3] Sehgal, Parul (2023-09-11). "What Happens When James Ellroy Gets Mixed Up with Marilyn Monroe?". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

[4] Vognar, Chris (2023-09-08). "James Ellroy has his way with 1960s L.A. — and the corpse of Marilyn Monroe". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

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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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