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.
- ISBN10 1878923102
- ISBN13 9781878923103
- Publish Date 1 September 1998 (first published 4 May 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 July 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Amok Books,U.S.
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 230
- Language English