Word: dahlia
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...boxing match for the benefit of a police charity. They become detective-partners and further buddy up in a chaste, yet sexually charged, relationship with a mysteriously damaged woman named Kay Lake (Scarlett Johansson). Their relationship is sealed (and ultimately undone) by their assignment to the eponymous Black Dahlia case...
...quest for notoriety has fueled legions of false confessions to high-profile crimes. After Charles Lindbergh's infant was kidnapped and murdered in 1932, more than 200 people stepped up to say they were the culprit. Over the years, 500 or so have confessed to Hollywood's 1947 "Black Dahlia" slaying...
After the publication of his first novel, Brown’s Requiem, Ellroy’s success continued, climbed steep and his L.A. Quartet series—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz—were all international bestsellers...
...Best of Lesbian Sex, as in the 6-page “Sailor Seduces Siren” layout. “Inspired by the famous World War II photo of a sailor kissing a nurse, Lucky searched Times Square until she found herself a sweetie, the irresistible siren Dahlia,” reads the introduction. What followed were shots of the sailor girl stripping the prostitute’s black lace underwear, groping her breasts, laughing and kissing...
...doesn't do innocence. But he does bad guys really well. Having made his name as the latter-day master of noir with books on L.A. cops, murderers and assorted lowlifes--L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia--Ellroy began searching for larger game to hunt. He found it in the turmoil of the 1960s, with the assassinations of the two Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr. and the drama of the civil rights struggle. "I lived through the '60s, with these great events roiling around me. I never partook, but I always felt there were private stories underneath the public events...