''Crime Wave'' is a
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
collection of eleven short works of fiction and non-fiction, all originally published in ''
GQ'', by American
crime fiction writer
James Ellroy. The collection, issued as a paperback original, includes a short story ("Hush-Hush"), two novellas ("Tijuana, Mon Amour" and "Hollywood Shakedown"), and eight pieces of crime reports, including "Sex, Glitz, and Greed: The Seduction of
O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed "Juice", is an American former football running back, actor, and broadcaster who played for the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. Once a popular figure ...
". More of Ellroy's ''GQ'' pieces can be found in the collection ''
Destination: Morgue!''.
The true crime report titled "Glamour Jungle" concerns the unsolved murder of aspiring network television actress
Karyn Kupcinet that happened in her
West Hollywood, California apartment in the early morning hours of
Thanksgiving Day, 1963. She was 22 years old. When Ellroy visited the
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in the mid 1990s to study old documents from that department's investigation of the Kupcinet case, he was assisted by Kupcinet's niece, Kari Kupcinet-Kriser, daughter of
Jerry Kupcinet
Jerry Solomon Kupcinet (November 1, 1944 – January 20, 2019) was a Daytime Emmy Award winning director and producer.
Early life
Kupcinet is the son of newspaper columnist Irv Kupcinet and Esther Kupcinet (née Solomon). He is the younger broth ...
. Kupcinet-Kriser was born many years after her aunt's murder but became fascinated by it.
Neither Ellroy nor Kupcinet-Kriser came any closer to solving the case than the sheriffs had thirty years earlier. Ellroy's report, which was first published in the December 1998 edition of ''
GQ'', became the only published source that goes into detail about the homicide and the sheriff's investigation of it that lasted more than five years without resulting in any arrests.
Contents
*''Introduction by Art Cooper, Editor-in-Chief, GQ''
*Part One: Unsolved
**"Body Dumps"
**"My Mother's Killer"
**"Glamour Jungle"
*Part Two: Getchell
**"Hush-Hush"
**"Tijuana, Mon Amour"
*Part Three: Contino
**"Out of the Past"
**"Hollywood Shakedown"
*Part Four: L.A.
**"Sex, Glitz, and Greed: The Seduction of O. J. Simpson"
**"The Tooth of Crime"
**"Bad Boys in Tinseltown"
**"Let's Twist Again"
1999 short story collections
Non-fiction crime books
Short story collections by James Ellroy
Books with cover art by Chip Kidd
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