Rogue One: A Black Dahlia Story. James Ellroy uses the ‘missing week’ of notorious murderee Elizabeth Short to nuke 1940s Hollywood from orbit and take down some demons of his own. The world depicted here is stygian, this is not a beach read, but it is rivetingly written by a writer obviously, screa...
In theory, THE BLACK DAHLIA is a true-to-form noir that follows the recollections of a cop through his off-color criminal investigations and backroom police politics, punctuated by the one of the worst unsolved murders in American history.In practice, it’s a sex fantasy that occasionally remembers i...
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy is an intense, action-packed page turner. Even though the unsolved murder case from the 1940's has received a lot of coverage, Ellroy's book brings it to life with beautifully drawn characters. I gave it five stars. I purchased this on sale & read it in one sitt...
Corruption, debauchery, scandal and murder. This one starts out as a character study of two former boxers turned cops and then gets deep in several intertwined plots that shine a light on the seedy underbelly of Hollywood in the 1940’s. Thick with atmosphere, this one drips with noir and never loses...
Most people are familiar with the case of the Black Dahlia, one of the most infamous unsolved murder cases in U.S. history, where a young, pretty Hollywood starlet named Elizabeth Short is found in a vacant lot, her body mutilated, disemboweled, and cut in half. But this isn't a true crime book. Jus...
In January of 1947 the body of a woman, later identified as Elizabeth Short, was found mutilated and abandoned in a vacant lot Los Angeles. In the papers (ever eager to run with a story of this ilk), she became known as "the Black Dahlia" after a film of the same name. In June of 1958 the assault ...
The body of Elizabeth Short is found mutilated and the LAPD are tasked with nabbing the culprit. Superstar partners Dwight Bleichert and Lee Blanchard try to piece together Short’s missing days but with the media in a frenzy surrounding the brutal murder, making headway proves difficult. If that’s...
I read somewhere that Ellroy's stories are about "strong women, weak men and obsessions." There isn't a better description to describe this story. Though the narration is good, there's something missing and I felt at most parts that the story was under-developed and the reasons unexplained. "America...
"I give The Black Dahlia three stars for me, five stars for people who like plot so much that they just can't get enough of it. 'You know what this book needs is more fuckin' plot,' is what people who will love this book say about a lot of books. 'What about a book that has a plot and then it ties t...
I wanted to love this book. I finished almost hating it. I am thinking that I was hoping for a pure true story. In this particular scenario I am thinking that the true story would have been more interesting than delving into the lives of two shady police officers.I am very disappointed and I will pr...
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