The black dahlia / James Ellroy.
"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 Dahliaand so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Grand Central Publishing : Mysterious Press, 2006. ©2006 |
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| Genre: | Detective and mystery stories. |
| Summary: | "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 Dahliaand 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 Dahliadriven 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 girls twisted life, past the extremes of their own psychesinto a region of total madness."--Publisher's website |
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| Item Description: | "With a new afterword by the author"--Cover. |
| Physical Description: | 337 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780446698870 0446698873 9780739473603 0739473603 |
| FOLIO Link: | View instance in FOLIO |