num_pages: 325
description: On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles 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 (L.A. Quartet, #1)
characters: Kay Lake, Ellis Loew, Emmett Sprague, Madeleine Sprague, Lee Blanchard, Fritzie Vogel, Dwight (Bucky) Bleichert
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, True Crime, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Historical, Noir, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 89858
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