Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder-the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history.

The brutal murder of Elizabeth Short-better known as the Black Dahlia-in 1947 has been in the public consciousness for nearly eighty years, yet no serious study of the crime has ever been published.

Short has been mischaracterized as a wayward sex worker or vagabond, and-like the seductive femme fatales of fil...