Black Dahlia, Red Rose

the crime, corruption, and cover-up of America's greatest unsolved murder

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Piu Marie Eatwell: Black Dahlia, Red Rose (2017)

350 pages

English language

Published Dec. 20, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-63149-226-6
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OCLC Number:
971344380

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2 stars (1 review)

Los Angeles, 1947. The mutilated body of Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet from Massachusetts is found; her killer never would be. As the "Black Dahlia" she became a warning for "loose" women in postwar America, and her death has maintained an almost mythic place in American lore. Eatwell gained access to newly-released evidence and has persuasively identified the culprit, using clues to the case that have never surfaced in public.

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2 stars

The information here, including a very plausible theory of who was involved in the Dahlia killing, is very solid. But it's bogged down by messy writing. I frequently couldn't parse sentences or figure out what the writer was saying, and I am not a bad reader. If the quality of the writing had reached the level of the facts provided, this would be a classic of true crime writing. As it is, I'm sticking with 3.0 stars.

Subjects

  • Murder
  • Investigation
  • Case studies

Places

  • California
  • Los Angeles