This is another in the "Treasury of XXth Century Murder" series of graphic novels by Rick Geary. In 1947 the mutilated body of Elizabeth Short was discovered laying in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The body had been drained of blood, scrubbed clean, and cut in half. A police investigation discovered her identity but not the killer(s). The local and later national press covered the discovery and investigation extensively and dubbed the victim "The Black Dahlia". Geary covers the facts and his realistic pen and ink drawings give it the feeling of an old newspaper account. The Black Dahlia murder was never solved and much has been written about it, both nonfiction and fiction.
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