num_pages: 325
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Black Dahlia
titlecomplete: The Black Dahlia
characters: Lee Blanchard, Emmett Sprague, Madeleine Sprague, Dwight (Bucky) Bleichert, Kay Lake, Fritzie Vogel, Ellis Loew
genres: Historical, Noir, Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, True Crime, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 89872
places: Los Angeles, California, California
series: L.A. Quartet
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 1. Platz International, awardedAt: 1514793600000
name: Premio Pepe Carvalho
publisher: Mysterious Press