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Product Identifiers
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-100446618128
ISBN-139780446618120
eBay Product ID (ePID)26038311647
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlack Dahlia
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Contemporary Women, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / General, Noir
Publication Year2006
GenreFiction
AuthorJames Ellroy
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight6.9 Oz
Item Length6.8 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisThe highly acclaimed novel based on America's most infamous unsolved murder case. Dive into 1940s Los Angeles as two cops spiral out of control in their hunt for The Black Dahlia's killer in this powerful thriller that is "brutal and at the same time believable" ( New York Times ). 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., Los Angeles, 1947: The mutilated body of a beautiful young woman -- dubbed the Black Dahlia by the press -- is found, spawning the greatest manhunt in California history. Warrants Squad cops Buckeye Bleacher and Lee Blanched are on the case, and soon become obsessed with the victim. They are driven to learn everything about her, and find that their pursuit of her killer and her twisted past lead them on a hellish tour of post-war Hollywood and into a region of total madness."Brutal and at the same time believable". -- The New York Times"Turgid with passion, violence, and frustration...imaginative and bizarre". -- Los Angeles Times"Fine attention to detail and a dead-on sense of the period...Ellroy has established himself as one of the finest practitioners of noir fiction". -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
LC Classification NumberPS3555.L6274B53 2006
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