When he published Le Dahlia noir in 1987, James Ellroy, then 39, was already at the head of a romantic work to make a seasoned author fade. It took the former junkie, alcoholic, burglar at the small week, only seven short years to write six novels *, received by thriller thrillers as punches in the face. With Brown's Requiem (1981), Clandestin (1982), Lune sanglante (1984), Because of the night (1984), La Colline aux suicidés (1986) and Un tueur sur la route (1986), Ellroy already validated this shattering statement , which would not be the last, far from it: “ I want to become the best author of a black novel of my generation! "
If this autodidact seemed so eager to arrive at the writing of the Black Dahlia , it is because this news item which occurred in mid-January 1947 in his city, Los Angeles, resounded terribly with the great drama of his life, the two forming a single obsession.
Explanations. One year before the birth of the writer,
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