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On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles 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.
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The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
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- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- The Black Dahlia
- Language
- English
- Authors
- James Ellroy
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 371
- ISBN10
- 0446618128
- ISBN13
- 9780446618120
- Series
- L.A. Quartet
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, True Stories, USA, Murders, Fun, Filmthema, Sexuality & Intimacy, True Crime, Violence, Police, Corruption, Mexico, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Printing, Underworld, Boxing
- Original title
- The black dahlia
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
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- On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles 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.