Cherchez La Femme: My Affair with The Black Dahlia
Posted in True Crime, Halloween, Books, Horror, Film |By Less Lee Moore
The Black Dahlia was the first James Ellroy novel I read and I loved it. I had become a fan of the hardboiled detective fiction genre after being introduced to the pulp novels of Jim Thompson in a Film Noir class. Then, seeking more books in that vein, I soon devoured all the books of Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain. Since Thompson, Chandler, and Cain were all deceased, I was thrilled that Ellroy was still alive and kicking.
But it was more than that.
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