The source might be worth recalling, and analyzing, before we
get into how the comment reflects on Ellroy. Even if he said
that Mosley ripped him off, which is not an impossibility,
did he give specific examples? Was he sarcastically and
facetiously brushing aside a question about Mosley's writing?
Was he just being the outrageous Ellroy?
Dick Lochte
Rene wrote:
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)
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