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“DEATH LIVES!”: INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION OF ELLROY’S THE BLACK DAHLIA

ELLROY, James. The Black Dahlia. New York and London: Mysterious Press, (1987). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition of Ellroy’s breakthrough novel and his first bestseller, boldly inscribed: “To Lorraine Zieterman—Death Lives! James Ellroy.”

Dedicated to Ellroy’s mother, who was murdered by an unknown assailant, this first book in the L.A. Quartet presented a fictional solution to the real-life unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, better known as “The Black Dahlia.”

Fine condition.