The Black Dahlia
Novel by James Ellroy
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The Black Dahlia is a crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Its subject is the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles, California, which received wide attention because her corpse was horrifically mutilated and discarded in... Wikipedia
Originally published: September 1987
Author: James Ellroy
Genres: Novel, Noir fiction, Crime fiction, and more
Followed by: The Big Nowhere
Adaptations: The Black Dahlia (2006) and The Black Dahlia
Cover artist: Jacket design by Paul Gamarello; Jacket illustration by Stephen Peringer; Art direction by Barbara Buck
Pages: 325 pp (1st ed., hardcover)