Four vols: 'The Black Dahlia', 'The Big Nowhere', 'L.A. Confidential', and 'White Jazz', complete; the author's breakthrough sequence where police procedural meets American history through the Cold War of the late 1940s and 1950s; the four vols. inscribed twice by the author, first with familiar exhortations to the reader, the second personally to Bob Carr with local references - 'The Royal Commission will ..., 'soon to be all Australian movie'.
