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Black Dahlia, Red Rose : the crime, corruption, and cover-up of America's greatest unsolved murder / Piu Eatwell.

by Eatwell, Piu Marie.

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Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.

Short, Elizabeth, 1924-1947.

Murder -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.

Murder -- Investigation -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- California -- Los Angeles.

9781631492266 (hc.)

xvii, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-334) and index.

Part 1. Fallen angel -- Farewell my lovely -- A double lie -- The capture -- Gilda -- Dial M for murder -- House of strangers -- The big sleep -- Part 2. Dark passage -- The letter -- The suspect -- Behind locked doors -- Deadline at dawn -- Breaking point -- The lodger -- Kiss tomorrow goodbye -- Panic in the streets -- Part 3. Raw deal -- Key witness -- The glass alibi -- The verdict -- Detour -- Fall guy -- Voice in the wind -- Part 4. Out of the past -- The name of the rose -- Specter of the rose -- The woman in the window.

"This gripping reexamination of the Black Dahlia murder offers a definitive theory of the crime. Los Angeles, 1947. A housewife out for a walk with her baby notices a cloud of black flies buzzing ominously in Leimert Park. An "unsightly object" is identified as the mutilated body of Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet from Massachusetts who had been lured west by the siren call of Hollywood. Her killer would never be found, but Short's death would bring her the fame she had always sought. Her murder investigation transformed into a real-life film noir, featuring corrupt cops, femmes fatales, gun-slinging gangsters, and hungry reporters. For over half a century this crime has maintained an almost mythic place in American lore as one of our most inscrutable cold cases. With the recently unredacted FBI file, newly released sections of the LAPD file, and exclusive interviews with the suspect's family, legal sleuth Piu Eatwell has gained unprecedented access to evidence and persuasively identified the culprit. A gritty, cinematic retelling of the haunting tale. Piu Eatwell is also the author of The Dead Duke, his Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse"--Provided by publisher.

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