The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles

Wolfe, Donald H.

ISBN 10: 0060582499 / ISBN 13: 9780060582494

Published by ReganBooks, New York, NY, 2005

About this Item

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 402 pages. Illustrations. Source Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by author. DJ has some wear and soiling. Donald H. Wolfe worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter and film editor for twenty-five years. His fascination with Marilyn Monroe began when he met her in 1958 during the filming of Some Like It Hot at Samuel Goldwyn Studios. Wolfe was working there as a film editor on The Loretta Young Show. He also studied cinema at the University of Southern California, and made an award-winning short subject film in France with director Jean Renoir. . Donald Wolfe is known for his work on Savage Intruder (1970), Voyage of Mr. Q (1961) and Big Wednesday (1978). "The Black Dahlia" was a nickname given to Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 c. January 15, 1947), an American woman who was the victim of a much-publicized murder in 1947. Short acquired the moniker posthumously from newspapers in the habit of nicknaming crimes they found particularly lurid. The "Black Dahlia" nickname may have been derived from a film noir murder mystery, The Blue Dahlia, released in April, 1946. Short was found mutilated, her body sliced in half at the waist, on January 15, 1947, in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. Short's unsolved murder has been the source of widespread speculation, leading to many suspects, along with several books, television and film adaptations of the story. Short's murder is one of the oldest unsolved murder cases in Los Angeles history In 1946, Elizabeth Short traveled to Hollywood to become famous and see her name up in lights. Instead, the dark-haired beauty became immortalized in the headlines as the "Black Dahlia" when her nude and bisected body was discovered in the weeds of a vacant lot. Despite the efforts of more than four hundred police officers and homicide investigators, the heinous crime was never solved. Now, after endless speculation and false claims, bestselling author Donald H. Wolfe discovers startling new evidence-buried in the files of the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office for more than half a century. With the aid of archival photos, news clippings, and investigative reports, Wolfe documents the riveting untold story that names the brutal murderer-the notorious Mafia leader, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel-and the motive-an unwanted pregnancy resulting from Short's involvement with the most powerful figure in Los Angeles, Norman Chandler. But Wolfe goes even further to unravel the large-scale cover-up behind the case. Wolfe's extensive research, based on the evidence he discovered in the recently opened LADA files, makes The Black Dahlia Files the authoritative work on the murder that has drawn endless scrutiny but remained unsolved-until now. First edition. First edition [stated]. May be second printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles
• Publisher: ReganBooks, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060582499
• ISBN 13: 9780060582494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Seeks to resolve questions pertaining to the fifty-year-old unsolved murder mystery of Elizabeth Short, revealing both the identity and motivation of the killer while discussing the corruption within the Los Angeles police department that prevented the case from being closed. 30,000 first printing.

About the Author

Donald H. Wolfe is the author of The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, which became an international bestseller and Literary Guild Selection. In Hollywood, California, where he was born and raised, Wolfe became a film editor at Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros., where he worked on All the President's Men and became a screenwriter for Steven Spielberg. A contributor to the New York Times and Paris-Match, Wolfe now lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two children.