Kay becomes attracted to Bucky and attempts to seduce him, revealing that her relationship with Lee is platonic, but Bucky nevertheless rebuffs her advances in order to avoid upsetting the harmonious friendship between the three of them. Bucky quickly forms a close bond with Lee and Kay, seeing them as a surrogate family.
In 1946, Bucky is promoted to a plainclothes job in the Warrants Division, with Lee as his partner. Lee is openly cohabiting with Kay Lake, De Witt's girlfriend, in violation of LAPD policy. Bucky meets Lee Blanchard, another boxer-turned-cop who made his name by proving that violent pimp Bobby De Witt was the mastermind behind a notorious bank heist. However, when his father's membership in the German American Bund is discovered, Bucky is forced to inform on two Japanese-American friends and is wracked with guilt when they are sent to an internment camp. In 1941, light heavyweight boxer Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert joins the LAPD in order to avoid being conscripted so that he can look after his dementia-addled father. The Quartet continues with The Big Nowhere, L.A. He portrays the city in this period as a hotbed of political corruption and depravity. Quartet, a cycle of novels set in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles. The Black Dahlia is the first book in Ellroy's L.A. This book is considered the one that gained Ellroy critical attention as a serious writer of literature, expanding his renown beyond the crime novels of his early career.
James Ellroy dedicated The Black Dahlia, "To Geneva Hilliker Ellroy 1915-1958 Mother: Twenty-nine Years Later, This Valediction in Blood." 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.
While rooted in the facts of the Short murder and featuring many real-life people, places and events, Ellroy's novel blends facts and fiction, most notably in providing a solution to the crime when in reality it has never been solved. The investigation ultimately led to a broad police corruption scandal. Its subject is the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles, California, which received wide attention because her corpse was horrifically mutilated and discarded in an empty residential lot. The Black Dahlia (1987) is a crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy.
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