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"Life-size wax replicas of Julie and Ethel were strapped in. They wore steel-plate dunce caps to shoot them the juice. The dummies were knock-you-dead realistic. Their facial sets were perfectly etched.

Shell flipped a wall switch. Sound effects kicked on. A generator whined, buzzed, and crackled. Julie and Ethel shimmy-shimmied. Their acrylic hair ignited. Smoke blew out their ears."

Indeed.

"James Ellroy is the American Dostoyevsky."
-Joyce Carol Oates