German-AmericanLos Angeles–based detective Fritz Brown is hired by the mysterious caddie Fat Dog Baker, who wants him to spy on his sister Jane and her benefactor, the much older businessman Sol Kupferman. Brown recognizes Kupferman as a man he had seen at the Club Utopia before it was burned down some years before. Brown suspects Fat Dog of being an arsonist and discovers that Kupferman owned Club Utopia through a proxy. Brown, thinking there might be a connection between the two men, decides to look for Fat Dog, who has disappeared and force him to confess but finds him dead in Mexico instead. He has been killed by Richard Ralston, with whom Fat Dog had started an illegal trade in social welfare benefits. Ralston failed to find a notebook where Fat Dog had meticulously noted their illegal transactions. Brown finds it and learns how Fat Dog, apart from the Utopia arson, had burned the houses where he had lived as foster child with his sister. Kupferman is their father, while their mother Louisa was a woman of the upper class who was forbidden from having anything to do with him because he was Jewish. To avoid scandal after Louisa's suicide, Kupferman gave the children to foster parents and bribed a corrupt officer, Haywood Cathcart, for buying his silence about the matter. Brown, who in the meantime has developed a crush on Jane, finds Cathcart out and kills him after making him confess his crimes.
brown, requiem, novel, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, brown, requiem, novel, news, newspapers, book. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Brown s Requiem novel news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2010 Learn how and when to remove this message Brown s Requiem is a 1981 crime novel 1 the first novel by American author James Ellroy 2 Ellroy dedicated Brown s Requiem to Randy Rice Ellroy wrote the book while he worked as a caddie at the Bel Air Country Club 3 Brown s Requiem was initially published in paperback in the US by Avon Books and the first hardback and first UK edition was published in 1984 by Allison and Busby 4 The novel was adapted into a 1998 film of the same title Brown s RequiemFirst editionAuthorJames EllroyCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishGenreCrime fictionPublisherAvon BooksPublication date1981ISBN0 380 78741 5OCLC40254065Followed byClandestine 1982 Plot editGerman American Los Angeles based detective Fritz Brown is hired by the mysterious caddie Fat Dog Baker who wants him to spy on his sister Jane and her benefactor the much older businessman Sol Kupferman Brown recognizes Kupferman as a man he had seen at the Club Utopia before it was burned down some years before Brown suspects Fat Dog of being an arsonist and discovers that Kupferman owned Club Utopia through a proxy Brown thinking there might be a connection between the two men decides to look for Fat Dog who has disappeared and force him to confess but finds him dead in Mexico instead He has been killed by Richard Ralston with whom Fat Dog had started an illegal trade in social welfare benefits Ralston failed to find a notebook where Fat Dog had meticulously noted their illegal transactions Brown finds it and learns how Fat Dog apart from the Utopia arson had burned the houses where he had lived as foster child with his sister Kupferman is their father while their mother Louisa was a woman of the upper class who was forbidden from having anything to do with him because he was Jewish To avoid scandal after Louisa s suicide Kupferman gave the children to foster parents and bribed a corrupt officer Haywood Cathcart for buying his silence about the matter Brown who in the meantime has developed a crush on Jane finds Cathcart out and kills him after making him confess his crimes See also edit nbsp Novels portal Brown s Requiem a 1998 film adaptationReferences edit Concise Major 21st Century Writers Thomason Gale November 2006 ISBN 9781414410487 James Ellroy comes to grips with murder The Gadsden Times AP January 17 1997 Retrieved 6 March 2011 Derek Elley November 22 1998 James Ellroy s little known first novel gets a respectful respectable but dramatically problematical screen translation in Brown s Requiem Variety Retrieved November 23 2023 Ellroy James Encyclopedia com Retrieved May 6 2024 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Brown 27s Requiem novel amp oldid 1222593005, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
