James Ellroy 
Dick Contino’s Blues And Other Stories [EPUB ebook] 

James Ellroys epochal first collection of short fiction. Dick Contino — 50s accordian player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam.meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles…a killer who is closer to Contino than he suspects — a killer who wants in on the kidnap — for real…Plus five previously unpublished short stories.