1st 2006 192pp Bullfinch Press. Illustrated. Slight scuffs to dustwrapper else near fine in near fine dustwrapper.
 
Bringing together the worlds of true crime and high art, this is an intriguing study of America's most notorious unsolved murder case, the killing and post mortem mutilation of aspiring Hollywood actress Elizabeth Short, know as The Black Dahlia. Links the murder scene positioning to works of surrealism and implicates members of the contemporary art scene. Features never-before-published crime-scene and autopsy photographs.