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Crime Wave is a 1999 collection of 11 short works of fiction and non-fiction, all originally published in GQ, by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy. The collection, issued as a paperback original, includes a short story ("Hush-Hush"), two novellas ("Tijuana, Mon Amour" and "Hollywood Shakedown"), and eight pieces of crime reportage, including "Sex, Glitz, and Greed: The Seduction of O. J. Simpson". More of Ellroy's GQ pieces can be found in the collection Destination: Morgue!.
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- Introduction by Art Cooper, Editor-in-Chief, GQ
- Part One: Unsolved
- "Body Dumps"
- "My Mother's Killer"
- "Glamour Jungle"
- Part Two: Getchell
- "Hush-Hush"
- "Tijuana, Mon Amour"
- Part Three: Contino
- "Out of the Past"
- "Hollywood Shakedown"
- Part Four: L.A.
- "Sex, Glitz, and Greed: The Seduction of O. J. Simpson"
- "The Tooth of Crime"
- "Bad Boys in Tinseltown"
- "Let's Twist Again"