The Black Dahlia - Softcover

Ellroy, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446674362 ISBN 13: 9780446674362

Publisher: Mysterious Press, 1998

Synopsis

On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total madness.

About this title

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About the Author:

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed LA Quartet, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz, as well as the first two parts of his Underworld USA trilogy, American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand which were both Sunday Times bestsellers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0446674362
• ISBN 13: 9780446674362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 325