- Detective and mystery fiction, hard-boiled, thrillers, crime
The Black Dahlia is a roman noir on an epic scale: a classic period piece that provides a startling conclusion to America's most infamous unsolved murder mystery--the murder of the beautiful young woman known as The Black Dahlia.
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Grave, bleak, epic and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- James Ellroy
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 444
- Publisher
- Rivages, Grand Central Publishing, Century
- Editions
- 55
- Language
- Polish, German, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780712619950
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“The road to the partnership began without my knowing it, and it was a revival of the Blanchard-Bleichert fight brouhaha that brought me the word.”
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels *The Black Dahlia* (1987), *The Big Nowhere* (1988), *L.A. Confidential* (1990), *White Jazz* (1992), *American Tabloid* (1995), *The Cold Six Thousand* (2001), and *Blood's a Rover* (2009). *-- Wikipedia*
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