The first and still the best book on the strangest of all officially unsolved murders in the annals of modern crime January 1947. LA. Elizabeth Short, aka 'The Black Dahlia', a small-town beauty queen, is found murdered on wasteground. She has been badly mutilated. Her body bisected...John Gilmore, who has spent thirty-five years investigating the case, here tells the story of Short's tragically futile life and reveals the tangled inside story of the police investigation, which never resulted in a conviction. But most shocking of all, he recounts the startling circumstances and gruesome details of the killer's indirect confessions to him and the circumstances of his death.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"'Only with author John Gilmore's Severed do we get previously undisclosed information from police files, never-before-published photos and a look at the probable murderer--and why he escaped prosecution.' Larry Flynt"
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Maße
Höhe: 197 mm
Breite: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86207-691-4 (9781862076914)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
John Gilmore was born and raised in Hollywood. His varied career included a spell as child actor, poet, screenwriter, low-budget film director, and a journalist, until he found his calling as a true-crime writer and novelist. He currently divides his time between his native Los Angeles and New Mexico.
