by James Ellroy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782743615871
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«Le dahlia noir» is a crime novel by James Ellroy, published by Rivages in paperback (504 pages, in French).
The plot begins in Los Angeles in January 1947, when the naked, mutilated body of Betty Short, a 22-year-old woman nicknamed «Dahlia Noir» by the press for her habit of dressing in black, is found. The case becomes one of the most famous mysteries in American crime history.
The first novel in James Ellroy's Los Angeles Quartet was originally published in English in 1987 under the title «The Black Dahlia».
For fans of mystery and true crime stories, with a plot set in 1940s Los Angeles.
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).
