Black Dahlia

Name: Black Dahlia
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ISBN: 9780446618120

ISBN-10: 0446618128

ISBN-13: 9780446618120

Edition: 2006

Authors: James Ellroy

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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…

Book details

List price: $8.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 4.15" wide x 6.75" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L. A. Quartet novels - "The Black Dahlia", "The Big Nowhere", "L. A. Confidential", & "White Jazz" - were international best-sellers. His novel "American Tabloid" was Time magazine's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir, "My Dark Places", was a "Time" Best Book of the Year & a "New Yorker Times" Notable Book for 1996. He lives in Kansas City.