by James Ellroy · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439729297
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«La Dalia Negra» is the crime novel by James Ellroy, published by Random House in hardcover (456 pages, in Spanish).
In 1947 Los Angeles, the appearance of a young woman's mutilated corpse, dubbed the Black Dahlia by the press, sets off an investigation that obsesses police officers Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, two former boxers known as Ice and Fire. The case, based on a true event, drags them through Hollywood's underworld and reveals a web of corruption, false leads, and political interests.
First installment of the Los Angeles Quartet. Includes an updated translation and an unpublished epilogue by the author.
For readers of crime and classic detective fiction seeking the start of an essential saga of the genre.
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).
