Crime WaveBy: James Ellroy Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog shrouded netherworld where"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp." From the scandal sheets of the