Characters in The Black Dahlia

Bucky Bleichert

A reserved, guilt-ridden LAPD detective and former boxer whose growing obsession with the murder pulls him into corruption and moral compromise.

Elizabeth Short

The real-life murder victim whose horrific 1947 killing, and the mystery of who she really was, drives the entire investigation.

Lee Blanchard

Bucky's charismatic partner, celebrated for capturing a bank robber, who is hiding secrets about his own criminal past and his bond with Kay Lake.

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Kay Lake

A sharp, independent woman living platonically with Lee Blanchard after her abusive ex-boyfriend was imprisoned; she is drawn into a love triangle with both detectives.

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Madeleine Sprague

A spoiled, sexually forward socialite who bears an eerie resemblance to Elizabeth Short and pulls Bucky into her wealthy family's secrets.

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Emmett Sprague

Madeleine's domineering, corrupt property-developer father, a Scottish immigrant whose violent past becomes entangled in the case.

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Fritzie Vogel

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Dwight (Bucky) Bleichert

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Ellis Loew

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Bobby De Witt

Kay Lake's abusive ex-boyfriend, a bank robber whose arrest set the surviving trio's entangled history in motion.