James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals.
Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers...

James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential. Windmill Books, ISBN: 9780099537885 (June, 2011), 480 p., £8.99.

James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential (UK 2005)

From the Publisher:
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals.
Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers...

James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential. Arrow Books, ISBN: 9780099366713 (November, 2005), 480 p., £7.99 (?).

James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals.
Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers...

James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential. Arrow Books, ISBN: 0099366711 (January, 1998), 480 p., £7.99 (?).

James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
Los Angeles in the 1950s: from its fabulous mansions to its sizzling nightclubs, it is a sprawling center of corruption and dangerous passions. Now a horrific mass murder invades the bleak cityscape. And caught in the nightmare are three cops boundby honor, sin, and blood...

Ed Exley wants to eclipse his policeman father's success. Bud White watched his own mother's murder -- and is now a time bomb with a badge. Jack Vincennes shakes down movie stars for a scandal magazine.

From the Master of Post-Modern Crime Fiction, James Ellroy, bestselling author of "The Black Dahlia", "The Big Nowhere", and "My Dark Places", comes his epic masterpiece "L.A. Confidential".

James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0446674249 (September, 1997), 496 p., $13.95.

James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, and offers no mercy, grants no survivors.

James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0446400106 (July, 1991), 496 p., $5.99.