Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood
Deftly sketched ... Mann posits an answer, but he concludes his impressively researched analysis with a question mark.
Admirably researched and generous ... Does Mann solve the crime? I think so — or at least he comes as close as one can to finding a plausible solution so many years after the fact.
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Although Mann’s effort stands apart from the overlong run of books about the case, it, too, is undercut by the need to name a likely suspect, playing into the true-crime imperative it aims to leave behind.
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