The first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder, which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious, postwar country grappling with new ideas, demographics, and technologies.
Admirably researched and generous ... Does Mann solve the crime? I think so — or at least he comes as close as one can to finding a plausible solution so many years after the fact.
Mann carefully examines small details that previous authors have overlooked. His research is extensive too ... The book’s blurb promises to be the definitive study about the brutal Dahlia murder. A cracking read, it lives up to the hype.
