num_pages: 384
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Black Dahlia
titlecomplete: The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
characters: Ellis Loew, Fritzie Vogel, Kay Lake, Madeleine Sprague, Emmett Sprague, Dwight (Bucky) Bleichert, Lee Blanchard
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Crime, True Crime
ratings_count: 89877
places: California, Los Angeles, California
series: L.A. Quartet
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 1. Platz International, awardedAt: 1514793600000
name: Premio Pepe Carvalho
publisher: Arrow