Description |
371 pages ; 18 cm |
Note |
"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover. |
Summary |
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. |
Subject |
Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Mystery fiction.
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ISBN |
0446618128 (pbk.) |
Standard No. |
9780446618120 |
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