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1986 novel by James Ellroy This article is about the novel. For the mountain in Montana, see Suicide Hill (Montana). For the ski jump in Michigan, see Suicide Hill Ski Jump. For the hill in central Spain, see Battle of Jarama.

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Suicide Hill

Author	James Ellroy
Language	English
Series	Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy
Genre	Novel, crime fiction
Publisher	The Mysterious Press
Publication date	1986
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	280 pp
ISBN	978-0-89296-235-8 (first edition, hardcover)
OCLC	12421070
Preceded by	Because the Night (novel) (1984)
Followed by	Killer on the Road (1986)

Suicide Hill is a crime fiction novel written by James Ellroy. Released in 1986, it is the third and final installment of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy.

In the 1993 documentary James Ellroy: The Demon Dog of American Literature, Ellroy states that Suicide Hill is the Hopkins novel he is the most proud of.

In an October 13, 2017 interview, actor Tom Hanks stated that he would be interested in playing the part of Lloyd Hopkins if a film or stage adaptation was to be put into production.

Plot summary

The novel begins with a psychiatrist's assessment recommending that Hopkins be immediately retired from duty with a full pension following the events of Because the Night (1984).

Hopkins eludes compulsory retirement with attachment as LAPD liaison officer to an FBI bank robbery investigation. Hopkins then manipulates his way into robbery/homicide investigations. The novel's story line and characters twist and turn.

References

Suicide Hill by James Ellroy, Kirkus Reviews, April 17, 1986, retrieved 2013-02-14.
Dennis Lehane (September 4, 2014). "The Big Sweep - James Ellroy's 'Perfidia'". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
James Ellroy, Part 1 Demon Dog Of American Crime Fiction. Retrieved 2024-04-14 – via www.youtube.com.
"Tom Hanks: By the Book". The New York Times. 13 October 2017.

External links

review from goodreads.com

v t e Works by James Ellroy
Stand-alone	Brown's Requiem (1981) Clandestine (1982) Killer on the Road (1986) Widespread Panic (2021) The Enchanters (2023)
Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy	Blood on the Moon (1984) Because the Night (1984) Suicide Hill (1986)
L.A. Quartet	The Black Dahlia (1987) The Big Nowhere (1988) L.A. Confidential (1990) White Jazz (1992)
Underworld USA Trilogy	American Tabloid (1995) The Cold Six Thousand (2001) Blood's a Rover (2009)
The L.A. Quintet	Perfidia (2014) This Storm (2019) The Enchanters (2023)
Short story collections	Hollywood Nocturnes (1994) Crime Wave (1999) Destination: Morgue! (2004)
Non-fiction	My Dark Places (1996) The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women (2010) LAPD '53 (2015)
Original screenplays	Dark Blue (2002) Street Kings (2008) Rampart (2011)
Film adaptations	Cop (1988) L.A. Confidential (1997) Brown's Requiem (1998) The Black Dahlia (2006)
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