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Cargando... The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angelespor Donald H. Wolfe
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was interesting, but also rambling. The author makes a solid case that Elizabeth Short was involved with the mafia. And, it was this connection that brought about her horrid demise wherein her body was found severed in many pieces, left in a lot, near a sidewalk where it could easily be found. Bloodless, severed with her mouth slit from each side of the lips to the ear, this was indeed a very brutal crime. Mid way the author got off track, leading me to feel that he should have made his case and wrapped up pages earlier. Elizabeth Short, aka The Black Dahlia was a sad soul who found herself attached to the wrong crowd. A magnet for the seedy, sleezy Los Angeles crowd. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In 1946, movie star wannabe Elizabeth Short traveled to Hollywood to see her name up in lights. Instead, the dark-haired beauty became immortalized as the "Black Dahlia." The heinous crime was never solved. Now, bestselling author Wolfe discovers new evidence and reveals the secrets of the sealed autopsy--buried in the DA's office for more than half a century. Wolfe discloses that the brutal murder was the work of mob leader "Bugsy" Siegel. Wolfe evokes the time, place, and circumstances that led Short down a tangled trail to her death, and unravels the large-scale cover-up, implicating practically an entire city and Hollywood way of life. Short entered a labyrinthine world of Syndicate-run clubs, brothels, casinos, and other shady operations that catered to Hollywood's elite and preyed on naive, ambitious beauties. The trouble began when she found herself pregnant with the child of the most powerful political figure in the city, Norman Chandler.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Now the negatives: it’s much longer than it needs to be, the case it makes, while interesting, is flimsy, and it goes off subject a lot.
The first part of the book was intriguing, while I found my mind wandering in the second part, even checking how many pages I had left to read to be done.
The case he lays out is plausible, but barely so. It was interesting and I’m glad I read it, but I wouldn’t read it again and probably wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re a big true crime fan. ( )