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

by James Ellroy

The murder of a beautiful young woman in 1947 Los Angeles sparks a great investigation in which Bucky Bleichert, Lee Blanchard, L.A.P.D. Warrants Squad cops, ex-boxers, friends, and adversaries become obsessed by the case.

• ISBN10: 0446618128
• ISBN13: 9780446618120
• Publish Date: 1 September 2006 (first published 1 September 1987)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 25 July 2024
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Time Warner Trade Publishing
• Imprint: Warner Books Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• 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.