num_pages: 371
description: The highly acclaimed novel based on America's most infamous unsolved murder case. Dive into 1940s Los Angeles as two cops spiral out of control in their hunt for The Black Dahlia's killer in this powerful thriller that is "brutal and at the same time believable" ( New York Times ).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 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: Emmett Sprague, Ellis Loew, Fritzie Vogel, Lee Blanchard, Dwight (Bucky) Bleichert, Kay Lake, Madeleine Sprague
genres: Historical Fiction, Thriller, Detective, Historical, Crime, Noir, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, True Crime, Fiction
ratings_count: 89860
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: Grand Central Publishing