The Black Dahlia

On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total madness.

• The Big Nowhere
• L.A. Confidential
• White Jazz
• American Tabloid
• Perfidia
• The Cold Six Thousand
• My Dark Places
• The Maltese Falcon
• BLACK DAHLIA: The Story of America’s Most Gruesome Murder
• Farewell, My Lovely