The Black Dahlia: A Crime Graphic Novel

James Ellroy & David Fincher

Book 1 of L.A. Quartet

Language: English

Publisher: Mysterious Press

Published: Jan 1, 1987

Pages: 176

Description:

On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.

In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy underside of Hollywood to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.