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Illuminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder-the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history-which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious, postwar country grappling with new ideas, demographics, and…
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