| Author: | James Ellroy |
| Cover Artist: | Cover design by Chip Kidd Cover images: Los Angeles Times Collection, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | True crime |
| Genre: | Short stories, novellas, crime fiction |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books |
| Release Date: | September 28, 2004 |
| Media Type: | Print (paperback) |
| Pages: | 389 pp (first edition, trade paperback) |
| Isbn: | 1-4000-3287-3 |
| Isbn Note: | (first edition, trade paperback) |
| Dewey: | 813/.54 22 |
| Congress: | PS3555.L6274 D47 2004 |
| Oclc: | 56415854 |
Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales is a 2004 collection of 12 short works by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy.[1] Eight of the pieces are non-fiction crime reportage or essays that Ellroy originally wrote for GQ magazine, some of which are autobiographical (see also his memoir My Dark Places).[2] Also included are three new novellas ("Hollywood Fuck Pad", "Hot-Prowl Rape-O", and "Jungle Jihad") and one short story previously published in GQ ("The Trouble I Cause"). Earlier GQ pieces by Ellroy can be found in the 1999 collection Crime Wave.[3]