Softcover. 2nd US Edn. The Black Dahlia murder hit post-War LosAngeles like a bombshell. In 1947, beautiful Elizabeth Short's naked body was found drained of blood and cut in half. This, the first true-crime book published on the strangest of all "unsolved" murders in the annals of modern crime, offers the solution documented by law enbforcement and forensic experts. Here, for the first time : the killer's own frightening statements on the gruesome murder. That 'truth is stanger than fiction' has never been so terrifyingly evident. Illus. + 2 Maps. 230pp. trade size softcover. Lightly marked fore-edge. Vg+