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The Black Dahlia

By: James Ellroy
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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A neo-noir crime novel from the legendary crime novelist James Ellroy.

Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life....

©1987 James Ellroy (P)2016 Isis Publishing Ltd Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Modern Detectives Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Mystery Police Procedural
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The Big Nowhere was I think a little better as a story, but the style and narration here is excellent. A wonderful series.

Solid, unrelenting noir

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I went looking for an example of detective noir style and was referred to this book by a friend.
It is perfect, it captures the style exactly and gets under your skin in the way the case gets under the characters skins.
Recommend whole heartedly. An iconic text.

Excellence

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Great story and intriguing mystery throughout and definitely worth the 13 hour listen. The last couple of chapters kept me listening for nearly 5 hours straight. Very well done.

Black Dahlia masterpiece

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Seemed to deviate a bit but the all comes together. Awesome story and story telling. Well worth the read..... Or listen.

Well worth the pay off

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An excellent story well told. Brilliant writing style. Scottish accent the only let down, it had an Irish sound, a minor point, but because a lot of the venom comes through that accent its important. Other than that the narrator was excellent

Highly recommend if you like crime fiction

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Not too bad. Conroy is always such a compelling author but TBD would not rate amongst my favourites.

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