Summer Page Turners – Hollywood Mysteries
June 17th, 2010 admin
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In the second week of our series on summer page turners, I want to turn to a sub-genre within mysteries — the Hollywood Crime Novel. My favorite Hollywood crime novel is The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy . First released in 1987, The Black Dahlia takes the true details of the unsolved 1947 Elizabeth Short murder and creates a fictional story of a police detective determined to solve the case. It is exquisitely written and hard to put down. If you are looking for a more current Hollywood mystery, try Hollywood Station…
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