{"product_id":"black-dahlia-murder-monsters-and-madness-in-midcentury-hollywood","title":"Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTinseltown \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBogart \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eoffers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder--the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe brutal murder of Elizabeth Short--better known as the Black Dahlia--in 1947 has been in the public consciousness for nearly eighty years, yet no serious study of the crime has ever been published. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Short has been mischaracterized as a wayward sex worker or vagabond, and--like the seductive femme fatales of film noir--responsible for and perhaps deserving of her fate. William J. Mann, however, is interested in the truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In his masterful, critically acclaimed biography, Mann humanizes Elizabeth Short like never before. Hailed by the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a meticulous and thorough retelling, five years in the making, that resists the sensationalism of the infamous crime to restore dignity back to this young woman's image,\" \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eh\u003c\/i\u003ee Black Dahlia\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive study about the most famous unsolved case in American history.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989438120125,"sku":"BS-TC0-075906","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781668075906-HD.jpg?v=1786626428","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/black-dahlia-murder-monsters-and-madness-in-midcentury-hollywood","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}