false 21704 41 On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history. <P>In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life. <P>"Passionate, violent, frustrating...imaginative and bizarre." (Los Angeles Times) <P>"Building like a symphony, this is a wonderful, complicated, but accessible tale of ambition, insanity, passion and deceit." (Publishers Weekly) 434 1987 The Black Dahlia total:3250|5:606|4:1116|3:1042|2:377|1:109| 3250 11483 4539 365 2 6 false false Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 03 12:28:10 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 11 12:39:52 -0700 2008
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This book involves the late 1940s torture-murder of Elizabeth Short (aka "the Black Dahlia"), a case as yet unsolved. It isn't so much about the case itself, as the effect it has on B...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 13:32:23 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 13:43:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 10:20:27 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 10:24:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jul 16 10:37:24 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 10:38:12 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Sun Apr 05 18:25:39 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 12:13:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 true false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 10:28:36 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 10:35:29 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 09 17:31:45 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 10:19:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 06:13:41 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 07:27:22 -0700 2009
Ellroy's writing is brief and succinct, and I can see how it wouldn't appeal to every rea...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 10 10:33:34 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 16 08:27:22 -0700 2009 1 Extremely noir - based on a notorious unsolved murder in 1940's LA, this is the story of two cops, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, whose lives become hopelessly entwined in the mystery surrounding Elizabeth Short's (the titular 'Black Dahlia') death.

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