He still lives with her and this scandalous relationship cost him a promotion. Lee Blanchard is famous for solving a hold-up case and shacking up with Kay, the criminal’s girlfriend after the trial. Bucky’s patriotism was tested during WWII and he agreed to give his Japanese neighbors up to keep his job with the LAPD. Bucky is the son of a German immigrant who doesn’t hide his racist tendencies. He met Lee Blanchard, another LPAD agent when they covered the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles. Her case became famous because her body was horribly mutilated and it’s still unsolved.Įllroy uses the Black Dahlia case as a basis to write a complex story with a striking picture of Los Angeles in the 1940s.ĭwight “Bucky” Bleichert is our narrator. She was born in 1924 in Boston and was murdered in Los Angeles in 1947. The Black Dahlia is loosely based upon a real case, the murder of Elizabeth Short that the press nicknamed the Black Dahlia.
Guy’s a crime fiction and noir afficionado.Īnd now I wonder: what was I waiting for? I only started to read noir fiction after I went online with Book Around the Corner and discovered Guy’s blog, His Futile Preoccupations. I was reluctant to read it, not sure I’d get along with Ellroy. The mention inside says my roommate gave it to me in 1995. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy is probably one of the oldest books of my TBR.
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