James Ellroy is the award-winning author of 18 books, including The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid, and The Cold Six Thousand. EllroyÂ’s new novel, Perfidia, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 2014. Housed in the oldest surviving LAPD station, The Los Angeles Police Museum chronicles the formation and development of the LAPD from its beginnings in 1869. Glynn Martin has been in and around the LAPD for more than 30 years and has served as the museumÂ’s executive director for more than a decade.

Its a perfect marriage of words and pictures, but above all it is a love letter to the city of his birth, LA, says Ellroy, is the town that made me and that I must return to, again and again. As must we.' Tatler, July 2015