Clandestine (novel)

Clandestine
First edition
Author	James Ellroy
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Crime fiction
Publisher	Avon Books
ISBN	0-380-81141-3
OCLC	40775390
Preceded by	Brown's Requiem (1981)
Followed by	Blood on the Moon (1984)

Clandestine is an 1982 crime novel by American author James Ellroy.^[1] Set in the 1951,^[2] the protagonist is an ambitious LA Cop, Fred Underhill. Ellroy dedicated Clandestine, "to Penny Nagler".

Officer Freddy Underhill is a young cop on the rise working out of the LAPD's Wilshire station in 1951. He covers the beat with his partner Herbert Lawton "Wacky" Walker, a World War II veteran with a Medal of Honor, a drinking problem, and an obsession with death. Underhill and Walker discover the mutilated and strangled corpse of a young secretary. The trail leads to other murders, new and old, and a beautiful crippled district attorney named Lorna Weinberg.

Several familiar themes and characters from Ellroy's L.A. Quartet series appear here, such as police lieutenant Dudley Smith, Michael Breuning, and Richard Carlisle.

Ellroy's Clandestine earned him a Edgar Award nomination from Mystery Writers of America, in 1982.

References

↑ Concise Major 21st-Century Writers. Gale via HighBeam Research. November 2006. ISBN 9781414410487. Retrieved 18 May 2012. (subscription required)
↑ "Clandestine, by James Ellroy". The Irish Times. 30 January 1999. Retrieved 8 January 2016.

Works by James Ellroy

Stand-alone	Brown's Requiem Clandestine Killer on the Road

Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy	Blood on the Moon Because the Night Suicide Hill

L.A. Quartet	The Black Dahlia The Big Nowhere L.A. Confidential White Jazz

Underworld USA Trilogy	American Tabloid The Cold Six Thousand Blood's a Rover

The Second L.A. Quartet	Perfidia

Short story collections	Hollywood Nocturnes Crime Wave Destination: Morgue!

Non-fiction	My Dark Places The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women LAPD '53

Film adaptations	Cop L.A. Confidential Brown's Requiem The Black Dahlia

Original screenplays	Dark Blue Street Kings Rampart

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