There is one major difference, of course: the real murder remained unsolved; the detection genre requires that the novel supply a solution.

Full of expert wisdom and overflowing with hundreds of breathtaking images, Discovering Dahlias is an essential resource and a must-have for anyone who loves flowers. Looking back, I know that the man possessed no gift of prophecy; he simply worked to assure his own future, while I skated uncertainly toward mine.

The epigraph for The Black Dahlia is "Now I fold you down, my drunkard, my navigator, My first lost keeper, to love and look at later. Those who get hooked on her are implicated in this crime, including we readers, and we all have our own histories and demons to bring to it. I could almost imagine Dahlia French inhaling across from me, pausing occasionally for another drink.

Bucky follows and stumbles across the corpse of De Witt, apparently murdered along with Mexican drug trafficker Felix Chasco by corrupt Rurales hired by Lee.Pues bien, Ellroy no defrauda y construye un argumento tan inteligente que permite resolver el caso, pero siendo consecuente con la incógnita que se mantiene hasta nuestros días.