Killer on the Road (a.k.a. Silent Terror)

The true first is the US Avon mass-market paperback original of 1986 titled Silent Terror. It was later reissued under Ellroy's preferred title Killer on the Road (paperback 1990, trade paperback 1999); those retitled printings are not the true first. A signed limited hardcover (Blood & Guts Press, 1987), limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Ellroy, is a later first-thus for the hardcover format only and was Ellroy's first limited edition.