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BLACK DAHLIA AVENGER: THE TRUE STORY
Hodel, Steve
2003 6513 ABOUT THE BOOK Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story FROM OUR EDITORS With its overtones of sex and scandal, the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short has been called Hollywood's most notorious unsolved crime. Now the killer's identity is revealed in this groundbreaking exposé. FROM THE PUBLISHER More than fifty years after what has been called ?the most notorious unsolved murder of the 20th century,? the case has finally been solved. On January 15, 1947, the body of beautiful 22-year-old Elizabeth Short?dubbed the Black Dahlia because of her black clothing and the dahlia she wore in her hair?was discovered on a vacant lot in downtown Los Angeles, her body surgically bisected, horribly mutilated, and posed as if for display. Even the most hardened homicide detectives were shocked and sickened by the sadistic murder. Thus began the largest manhunt in LA history. For weeks the killer taunted the police?and public?much as his infamous English counterpart Jack the Ripper had done in London 60 years before, sending tantalizing notes, urging them to ?catch me if you can.? And for weeks and months the LAPD came up empty. Charges of police ineptitude soon gave way to rumors of corruption and cover-up at the highest levels. Meanwhile, a rash of lone women in LA were brutally murdered, and their cases also remained mysteriously unsolved. Could the Black Dahlia Avenger be, in fact, a serial killer stalking the city streets? FROM THE CRITICS The New York Times Steve Hodel speaks of himself as a good solid cop, and that's the way he writes. Don't pick up this book for the jazzy rage of James Ellroy or the melancholy atmospherics of Raymond Chandler. At the same time, you'll be too busy clinging to the narrative to complain about the prose. It's only at the end of the book, as you realize how thoroughly Steve Hodel has identified his father as the killer of the Black Dahlia -- and the inspiration for an alphabet of other murders, including the mother Ellroy lost at the age of 10 -- that you realize how detached he is from the creepy blood ties of tracking down his own father. Is that a lack of skill -- or a protective numbness? Does he guess that the photograph album may have been meant to infect a steadfast son? — David Thomson Arcade Publishing 1-55970-664-3 / 9781559706643
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