by James Ellroy · Ediciones Martínez Roca, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427013186
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«La dalia negra» is the crime novel by James Ellroy, published by Ediciones Martínez Roca in paperback (333 pages, in Spanish).
The plot starts from the real murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947 and follows two policemen, friends and rivals, who become obsessed with the case while traversing postwar Hollywood, its underworld, corruption and decadence.
First installment of the L.A. Quartet series. The novel was originally published in English, with the title «The Black Dahlia», in 1987.
For fans of crime fiction and true crime, with a police plot inspired by a real case.
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) and L.A. Confidential (1990).
