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In this work the author offers a collection of 11 previously uncollected stories, including a title piece that tracks the friendship between Elizabeth Short, famously known as the Black Dahlia, the victim of a markedly brutal murder in 1940s Los Angeles that remains unsolved, and her roommate, Norma Jeane Baker who became Marilyn Monroe.
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The tortured body of a young woman was found drained of blood and cut in half 5 days after she went missing in January 1947. The newspapers called her the Black Dahlia and the cops investigating get caught up in the dead girl's troubled story.
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"In 1947, the brutal, sadistic murder of a beautiful young woman named Elizabeth Short led to the largest manhunt in LA history. The killer teased and taunted the police and public for weeks, but his identity stayed a mystery, and the murder remained the most tantalizing unsolved case of the last century, until this book revealed the bizarre solution. Steve Hodel, a retired LAPD detective who was a private investigator, took up the case, reviewing...
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Murderville trilogy volume 3
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In this final installment of the Murderville saga, Ashley and JaQuavis bring you the grit, treachery, and street perspective that they have become legendary for. This thrilling page-turner introduces the story of the black Dahlia and her bloodstained ascent to power. After establishing a connection with "The Five Families, " Dahlia becomes literally untouchable. Her brazen tactics and mafia-style antics become infamous as she is set to take over...
7) Black Dahlia, Red Rose: the crime, corruption, and cover-up of America's greatest unsolved murder
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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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In 1946, Elizabeth Short traveled to Hollywood to become famous and see her name up in lights. Instead, the dark-haired beauty became immortalized in the headlines as the "Black Dahlia" when her nude and bisected body was discovered in the weeds of a vacant lot. Despite the efforts of more than four hundred police officers and homicide investigators, the heinous crime was never solved. Now, after endless speculation and false claims, bestselling author...
9) Czarna Dalia
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"Było ich troje. Ich dwóch: Bucky Bleichert i Lee Blanchard. I ona jedna: Kay Lake. Obaj chcieli rywalizować o jej względy. I choć ta była dziewczyna gangstera została teraz przyjaciółką Lee - policjant z Los Angeles, to jego partner śledzczy, Bucky, wierzył, że któregoś dnia wszystko może się odwrócić."--edugaleria.pl.
Summary from an English edition: Based on the 1940's unsolved Los Angeles murder case of Elizabeth Short, a...
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"Discovered by Dr. Dahlia Black, the mysterious Pulse was sent by a highly intelligent intergalactic species that called themselves the Ascendants. It soon becomes clear this alien race isn't just interested in communication--they are capable of rewriting human DNA, in an astonishing process they call the Elevation. Five years after the Pulse, acclaimed journalist Keith Thomas sets out to make sense of the event that altered the world. Thomas travels...
12) The Black Dahlia
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"LAPD investigators Bucky Bleichart and Lee Blanchard find themselves enthralled with the mysterious and brutal murder of a beautiful young woman, Elizabeth Short. Their obsession takes a dark turn as they delve into the underbelly of Hollywood and the heart of the dead woman's tortured and twisted past. It is a case that will test their mettle and their sanity,"--Amazon.com.
13) La Dalia Negra
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"El 15 de enero de 1947, en un solar de Los Angeles, apareció el cadáver desnudo y seccionado en dos de una mujer joven. El médico forense determinó que la habían torturado durantes días. Elizabeth Short, de 22 años, llamada la Dalia Negra, llevará a los detectives a los bajos fondos de Hollywood, para así involucrar a ciertas personas adineradas de Los Angeles. Ambos están obsesionados por lo que fue la vida de la Dalia Negra, y, sobre...
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Everyman's library volume 388
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The Black Dahlia depicts the infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into the obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. His rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell.
The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel with the political novel. It is winter, 1950, and the L.A. authorities are targeting movieland Reds. The three cops assigned to the job are out to grab all the kudos they can. But a series of brutal sex killings...
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Graphic canon volume 6
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"Here is Teddy Goldenberg's dense, murky treatment of Dashiell Hammett's "The Road Home," often considered the first hard-boiled detective story ever published. Shawn Cheng renders the first serial-killer story, the so-called fairy tale "Bluebeard" by Charles Perrault. Landis Blair reimagines The Trial as a choose-your-own-adventure story that you cannot win. Plus twenty-three other contributors using a wide range of illustrative styles. As with previous...
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