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A noir novel based on the real 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short
1987Steady paceDark
What it is about
Two Los Angeles police officers who are also former boxers, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, investigate the murder of a young woman called the Black Dahlia. The case destroys their lives. The novel is a dark portrait of postwar Los Angeles.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who like hard-boiled crime.
What you will get
The first of Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet.
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The Black Dahlia Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Mystery & Thriller · Noir · Real case · Los Angeles
Length
342 pages · ≈ 10 h
More about this book
Characters
Bucky Bleichert, Lee Blanchard and Kay Lake.
Setting
Los Angeles in the late 1940s.
What makes it different
A novel built around a real unsolved crime.
Feel
Grim, gritty and obsessive.
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