Black Dahlia Avenger
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Steve Hodel, former LAPD homicide detective presents his evidence that his late father, Dr. George Hodel, a highly successful and brilliant man, killed the Black Dahlia.

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Severed
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Although many Dahlia fans consider John Gilmore's book the definitive account of the Elizabeth Short murder, "Severed" is crippled by several problems, the most serious being an utter lack of citations.

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The Black Dahlia
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James Ellroy, master of Los Angeles noir, outdid himself in this fictionalized account of the Black Dahlia murder. Not only does he depict Elizabeth Short as a hooker, he also recasts her as a lesbian and a porn star.

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Childhood Shadows
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Mary Pacios and Elizabeth Short lived in the same Medford, Massachusetts neighborhood in the late 1930s-early 1940s and were friends as well as neighbors. Pacios wrote this book as a kind of post mortem defense of Short, who has been portrayed over the years as a prostitute and hustler. Pacios fingers a famous hollywood director as the Dahlia Killer.

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Daddy Was the Black
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First hand account of woman who believes her father was a serial killer — one of whose victims was Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia.

Black Dahlia (Filmgarden)
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