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| Title | : | The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet #1) |
| Author | : | James Ellroy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 348 pages |
| Published | : | August 16th 2006 by Mysterious Press (first published September 1st 1987) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Noir. Historical. Historical Fiction. True Crime. Thriller |
James Ellroy
Paperback | Pages: 348 pages Rating: 3.76 | 77543 Users | 2488 Reviews
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On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a 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.Particularize Books As The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet #1)
| Original Title: | The Black Dahlia |
| ISBN: | 0446698873 (ISBN13: 9780446698870) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | L.A. Quartet #1 |
| Characters: | Madeleine Sprague, Emmett Sprague, Kay Lake, Ellis Loew, Fritzie Vogel |
| Setting: | Los Angeles, California,1947(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Deutscher Krimi Preis for 1. Platz International (1989) |
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Ratings: 3.76 From 77543 Users | 2488 ReviewsJudgment About Books The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet #1)
Ah, the post-war years. Americas golden age when things were so much better than they are today. When no injustice ever occurred, and no one was unfairly treated. Every pay check was a fortune, every meal a banquet, and the worst crime was the odd rapscallion stealing a pie off a window sill. Or maybe sometimes the bisected body of a woman who had been brutally tortured would be left in an empty lot which would put a wildly corrupt police force in a frenzied media spotlight as the copsE is for EllroyRead a book based on a true story.4.5 starsI cannot believe that I have never read anything by this author before. The fangirl in me is stirring.I have never read a lot of noir, and I'm not really sure why. I love it in film. Sam Spade, the black and white, the beautiful women with smoke circles around their heads and their beautiful hairdos with scarcely a hair out of place sitting on an inspector's desk with legs for days and shorter than normal skirts. Cops with suspenders
This is a dark, noir, disturbing novel, where nothing is clear cut. Our narrator, Bucky Bleichert is an LA cop, and boxer, who teams up with Lee Blanchard, after the two are pushed into a boxing match. Together, they are Fire and Ice, and complement each other. Indeed, Lee, and his girlfriend, Kay, who was previously a gangsters moll (to keep the appropriate 1940s slang!) become the only family he has known. Into an LA of Zoot Suit riots, and ethnic tensions, comes the murder of Elizabeth Short
A testosterone-powered wild ride through the dirty streets of post-war LA - there's 'gritty' and then there's Ellroy revelling in the romance of the gutter. Nothing is too twisted to appear on page: murder, torture, masturbation, violent sex, obsession - and if the criminals are hard, the rogue cops are tougher, even when they hide a wistful yearning for something decent and clean. Reflections and parallels abound: Bleichert and Blanchard whose names hint at other points of contact between them,
I should write a new review since I just finished a re-read but I'm not gonna yet. But if I did it would start something like this (image only):My Old Review:The Black Dahlia is the fictional account of Hollywood's most notorious murder case of Elizabeth Ann Short in 1947. The book, written by James Ellroy, is a reinvention in form of the noir gangster and detective murder mystery novels and films from the 30's and 40's. Borrowing much of it's language, imagery and style from the most famous of
* The door to the bar swings open and in strides a down at heel gumshoe with a cigarette drooping from his bottom lip. He strides through the bar, his stained raincoat flapping behind him as he pushes aside vacant bar stools and squints through the thinning veil of cigarette smoke. He spots his target and heads to a booth lined with vinyl seats at the back of the room. Pausing he grinds his cigarette butt beneath his heel, hands over the manuscript, tips his hat and leaves.*And that is how this
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