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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-100446674362
ISBN-139780446674362
eBay Product ID (ePID)836633
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlack Dahlia
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / General
GenreFiction
AuthorJames Ellroy
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight9.9 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN87-007952
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisLos 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, The murder of a beautiful young woman in 1947 Los Angeles sparks a great investigation in which Bucky Bleichert, Lee Blanchard, L.A.P.D. Warrants Squad cops, ex-boxers, friends, and adversaries become obsessed by the case.