The Black Dahlia (Cover Price Includes $ .50 F-P-T Amount) (La Quartet)

by James Ellroy

Los Angeles, 1th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in helf. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.

The first part of Ellroy's crime fiction masterwork, the LA Quartet, and based around a real murder case, The Black Dahlia pulses with violence, darkness and brutality. It is crime writing at its most powerful.

• ISBN10: 0099366517
• ISBN13: 9780099366515
• Publish Date: 17 February 1994 (first published 1 September 1987)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 15 November 2011
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Cornerstone
• Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[Michael @ Knowledge Lost]

The Black Dahlia is everything I want in a noir style novel; it’s got the slang and lingo right, it has the corruption in the police force and it has the dark characters and themes. It’s just an enjoyable hardboiled/noir novel similar to what you would expect in the 30’s and 40’s. As far as the movie adaptation of The Black Dahlia, I really enjoy the film, but after reading the book, I did sit down and rewatched it with disappointing results.