Returning to Los Angeles, Kay reveals many truths about Lee Blanchard's life, as well as hers. Bucky finds Lee murdered, in a site used to dump bodies. Lee heads there alone, and eventually Bucky follows him to Mexico as well, because of the length of Lee's absence. In the course of the investigation, leads in the murder case point to Mexico. It was an attempt to frame Bobby DeWitt, Kay Lake's pimp at the time, and to save Kay from the violent DeWitt, who scarred Kay's body with a knife. Bucky discovers that Lee's celebrated case-"The Boulevard-Citizens Bank Robbery"-was actually orchestrated by Lee. They both become obsessed with Elizabeth Short. In January 1947, they begin to investigate a murder as horrible as publicized: that of Elizabeth "Betty" Short, nicknamed "The Black Dahlia" found dead and mutilated in a vacant lot.īucky and Lee's personal and professional lives begin to unravel as the investigation continues. He also meets Kay Lake, a woman who lives with Lee, but doesn't have an intimate relationship with him. He is teamed up with Leland "Lee" Blanchard, as he was a former boxer. Originally published in 2013 in French as Le Dahlia Noir, it was published in English in June 2016, by Archaia Entertainment, a division of Boom! Studios.ĭwight "Bucky" Bleichert celebrates his first day at the Warrants division of the Los Angeles Police Department, a prestigious position where most police in Los Angeles dream to work. The Black Dahlia: A Crime Graphic Novel is a graphic novel adaptation of James Ellroy's novel The Black Dahlia, by Alexis Nolent and David Fincher, and illustrated by Miles Hyman. 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.Graphic novel adaptation The Black Dahliaĭwight "Bucky" Bleichert, Lee Blanchard, Kay Lake
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. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia - and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot.
Dive into 1940s Los Angeles as two cops spiral out of control in their hunt for The Black Dahlia's killer in this powerful thriller that is "brutal and at the same time believable" ( New York Times). The highly acclaimed novel based on America's most infamous unsolved murder case.
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