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• Front cover of first hardcover edition of The Black Dahlia (novel) by James Ellroy, published in the United States by The Mysterious Press, 1987.
• Jacket design by Paul Gamarello. Jacket illustration by Stephen Peringer. Art direction by Barbara Buck.
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