> As for questions, I've always wondered whether
Mosley and James Ellroy
see
> any parallels between the 1950's Los Angeles that
each of them has
created.
> In combination, they lay out a broader and deeper
picture than either
can
> depict on its own.
>
> Jim Blue
> --
I don't recall the source but I understand that Ellroy has
accused Mosley of ripping off his ideas to write A RED DEATH.
If it's true that Ellroy has said this, it reflects far more
poorly on Ellroy than Mosley. The notion that no-one other
than Ellroy could hit on the idea of writing about the "red
scare" of the 50's is just ludicrous. I would have thought
that it was one of the most obvious story ideas that some one
writing crime fiction set in LA in the 1950's could come up
with & I don't possess Ellroy's genius. (I'm not even
going to go into why an author of Mosley's talent would need
to steal from Ellroy)
Rene
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