Wednesday, July 1, 2009

The Black Dahlia


The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Grand Central Publishing, 1987
this edititon 2006 trade paperback
ISBN-13: 9780446698870
did not finish - (148 pages)

Synopsis
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. 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.
My thoughts:
This was a reread and for some reason I simply could not get past 150 pages this time.

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