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| From: | jrs82 | 3-Nov 12:55 |
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| Hi, I'm trying to find a book that I read in junior school about people trying to create a black rose. Its set in a house surrounded by a topiary garden, there are lots of weird characters and I think a murder. Sorry I don't have more go on! |
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| | | | | 3709.2 in reply to 3709.1 | |
i think it is called the black delia if spelt right hope this is right
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| | | | | 3709.5 in reply to 3709.4 | |
| There's a novel (James Ellroy) and a movie based on the case. Not to mention lots of True Crime stuff. Not impossible that someone could have used the same title, maybe unconsciously. You'd hope an editor would pick up on it, but given the lack of proof-reading in many books, perhaps not. |
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| | | | | 3709.6 in reply to 3709.5 | |
| That's my point, really - it's *so* notorious and *so* nasty that I can't see it as a title getting past editors, legal department, etc etc. I can actually see publishing houses pulping a run if they twigged too late - it'd be like having a childrens' book heroine called Myra Hindley or something.
Rocambole
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| | | | | 3709.9 in reply to 3709.6 | |
| I understand what you mean, though I suspect that the murder's only really well known in its own community and to true-crime fans. The original post did sound vaguely familiar, though. |
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| | | | | 3709.10 in reply to 3709.1 | |
| I wonder if what you're looking for is actually "The Black Tulip" (Alexandre Dumas). That involves a murder, & it used to be quite a popular children's book - years ago there was a TV serialisation as well. |
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| | | | | 3709.11 in reply to 3709.9 | |
America's such a large market, and I think titles are routinely run past lawyers (not to mention writers' friends and family and everyone at the publishers' and agents' offices, and, these days, Google)... I just don't think it'd get past all that. Though maybe it did, in a small print run, and the OP's one of only a few who ever read it!
Rocambole
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| | | | | 3709.12 in reply to 3709.11 | |
| Always a possibility, with so much vanity publishing and self-publishing around. |
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