To The Last Page

I have to admit to a certain sense of excited anticipation at the prospect of reading a new book that proposes a solution to the unsolved notorious Black Dahlia murder. It’s not that I was all that familiar with the details of the Black Dahlia case - although it’s hard to not be aware of such a famous murder mystery - but I had read Piu Eatwell’s investigation into another historical true life case ( The Dead Duke ), and I was sure that her methods of exploring archive records, accounts and interviews would be no less rigorous, the inferences weighed and balanced and the revelations no less fascinating. The case of the Black Dahlia might be more recent and more well-known than the Edwardian Druce-Portland case in The Dead Duke , but the challenges of getting to the truth of this notoriously unsolved case are just as difficult. The brutally mutilated and bisected naked body of 22 year old Elizabeth Short was discovered on a vacant lot of an LA suburb in January 1947. Although the police...