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Copyright © 2023 by James Ellroy

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ellroy, James, 1948– author.

Title: The enchanters : a novel / James Ellroy.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023005542 | ISBN 9780593320440 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593320457 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524712563 (open market)

Subjects: LCGFT: Detective and mystery fiction. | Novels.

Classification: LCC PS3555.L6274 E53 2023 | DDC 813/.54—dc23/eng/20230427

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2023005542

Ebook ISBN 9780593320457

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover images, left to right, top to bottom: (Marilyn Monroe) Archivio GBB/Alamy; (Daryl F. Gates) George Brich/AP Images; (Patricia Kennedy Lawford) Magite Historic/Alamy; (Natasha Lytess) J. R. Eyerman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock; (U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy) Glasshouse Images/Alamy; (Roddy McDowall) Getty Images; (Lois Nettleton) Getty Images; (Carole Landis) The Hollywood Archive/Alamy; (William H. Parker) Getty Images; (Fred Otash) Getty Images

Cover design by Chip Kidd

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