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The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy

Description: ISBN 0099366517 / Author: James Ellroy / Genre: Crime / Thriller

Newest Review: ... with woman. Short's murder is in-vestigated and the case has been reopened several times since, yet the murderer has ... more

... never been caught. This true-life murder is still labeled unsolved. Ellroy's fictional book examines the lives of two cops that have not only been assigned to the case, but become obsessed with trying to find the real killer. To make matters worse, these two cops are in love with the same woman. As they try to outdo each other for the love of this woman, in some ways by trying to solve this case, they are both pushing themselves away from her. In Ellroy's typical style, your not just in the 40's, your...more

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The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy: One of America's most celebrated murder cases. (643 words)
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In 1947, a woman and her daughter are walking by an abandoned lot. They see what they believe to be a mannequin laying on the ground. Upon closer inspection, they discover that the object in question is in fact a human body. The naked woman's body has been severely beaten and the torso has been cut in two pieces... each piece laying several feet from the other. The body turns out to be that of Elizabeth Short's, a 22 year-old actress to be. She is quickly dubbed the Black Dahlia by the press (because she had black hair and habitually wore black clothes). As the press digs deeper and deeper into her past, the Black Dahlia becomes one of most celebrated murders in ...

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