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Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood
By Mann, William J.
- ISBN
- 9781668075906
- Publisher
- S. & S.
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Starred Review on October 1, 2025 | Social Sciences
Mann (Bogie & Bacall) returns to the true-crime genre, where his 2014 bestseller Tinseltown won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime Book of the Year. This time, he tackles the infamous and well-trodden case of the shocking 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, nicknamed the Black Dahlia. As usual, the empathetic Mann does an excellent job of humanizing Short, the 22-year-old murder victim, in the co...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
