On January 15, 1947, in downtown Los Angeles, a young woman, Elizabeth Short, was found murdered in a most gruesome fashion. Because of the flower she wore in her hair, the victim was referred to as the Black Dahlia. BLACK DAHLIA AVENGER reexamines this unsolved case and offers some surprising theories about who the unknown killer might have been ...
After more than five decades of frustrating speculation and false claims, the long-buried secret of Elizabeth Short's murder is finally revealed. 16-page photo insert.
On January 15, 1947, in downtown Los Angeles, a young woman, Elizabeth Short, was found murdered in a most gruesome fashion. Because of the flower she wore in her hair, the victim was referred to as the Black Dahlia. BLACK DAHLIA AVENGER reexamines this unsolved case and offers some surprising theories about who the unknown killer might have been ...
The grisly 1947 murder of aspiring starlet and nightclub habitue Elizabeth Short, known even before her death as the "Black Dahlia, " has over the decades transmogrified from L.A.'s crime of the century to an almost mythical symbol of Hollywood Babylon/film noir glamor-cum-sordidness. Severed, the first true-crime book published on the strangest ...
Readers of this series may be surprised to find that P.I. Nathan Heller was, briefly, the lover of one Elizabeth Short--otherwise known as the Black Dahlia. When Short's mutilated body is found in Los Angeles, Heller--who happens to be in L.A. at the time of her death--realizes he may be a prime suspect because of their recent dalliance. He's got ...
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780394752969ISBN:0394752961
Description: Good. No Jacket. Dark blue printed covers clean, corners sharp, no crease at hinge, spine does have crease. text clean as new, good reading copy for the student. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. Illustrated. Includes: Head Winds and a Rough Sea; Service at the Point of a Rifle; Alas, Poor Annabelle; The Kid from Tomkinsville; The Great Tarnov Crystal; Adventure in Sheridan Square; Johnny Tremain; The Lance of Kanana; Lassie Come Home, The Riding Lesson; Men of Iron; Black Beauty; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; Call it Courage; The Witch Trial; Outside; Circum-Terra; Collier's Junior Classics. read more
Edition: Vol. 39, No. 3, Summer
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: F&W Publications, Inc.
Date Published: 1991
Description: Very Good+ Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Lightly edgeworn. 14 Stories: Vince Passaro: Utah; Robin Hemley, A Printer's Tale; William deBuys, Dreaming Geronimo; Edward Allen, Burt Osborne Rules the World; Joan Wickersham, Lena; Melanie Sumner, Naar; A Story Classic: Anton Chekhov, A Carp's Love; Steven Millhauser, The Way Out; Martha Sullivan Daugherty, Mr. Godolphin; Elizabeth McCracken, The Goings-On of the World; Alberto Alvaro Rios, Saturnino el Magnifico; David Shields, Ode to the ... read more
Edition: ns
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1961
Description: Fred Banberry. Hb, xlib, trade paperback in library binding, gd bk/ no dj, corners a bit bumped, usual library markings, moisture damage to back endpg, text clean and tight. read more
Edition: Summer, 1995
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: F&W Publications, Inc.
Date Published: 1995
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Lower corners bent right by tips. (ISSN: 1045-0831). Contributors include: Richard Dooling; Brad Watson; Tim Gauteaux; Elizabeth Gilbert; Vinayak Vatsal; Ursula Hegi; Kathleen Tyau; Tom Paine; Ellen Douglas; David Lansing; Brady Udall; Victor Schiff. 128 pages. read more
Edition: Number Three of 1988
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The English Association
Date Published: 1988
Description: Very Good. Journal. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Lightly edgeworn and surface smudged. Articles: Stephen Knight: Australian Crime Fiction; Jennifer Ash: Paradise and Australian Women Poets; Eric Irvin: Louis Bayer (1858-1907), Composer; Noel Rowe: Six Friendly Street Poets. Short Stories by: Bruce Dawe, Heather Cam, V.M.H. Angus and Graeme Harper. Poems by ten poets. Runs from page 235-360. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Globe Book Company
Date Published: 1949
Description: Good with no dust jacket. Includes the following stories: The Milk Pitcher by Howard Brubaker; Arkansas by Raymond Weeks; The Face of the Poor by Margaret Collier Graham; Weep No More My Lady, James Street; Another Brought Gifts, Bess Streeter Aldrich; The Doll, Barry Pain; The Chief Operator, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Uncle Hyacinth Alfred Noyes; England to America, Margaret Prescott Montague; Ultima Thule, John Glasworthy; All on a Winter's Night, Austin Strong; Turkey Red, Frances Gilchrist ... read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good in Very Good DJ. VG in VG dj (light edgewear, 1" tear). Anthology of stories and cartoons from Lincoln Steffens, Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, Charles Dickens, Robert Benchley, etc. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Center For Texas Studies
Date Published: 1998
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Stories and poems by Texans from the Center for Texas Studies at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Very Good softcover is tight & straight; story "Girl Talk" is signed and dated by the author, Elizabeth Knudson; 234 pp.; with Notes on Contributors. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Crowell-Collier Pubishing Company
Date Published: 1944
Description: Color & b&w. Very Good. Magazine. Folio. 132 pages, items by/about: Isabel Moore (novelette), Ann Chidester (short story), Marion Greene (short story), Dwight Hutchison (short story), Paul Ernst (short story), Clarence Budington Klelland (serial), Edith M. Stern, Anne Maxwell (Princess Elizabeth of England), Herbert Hoover, World War II; Cooking, Fashion, Advertisements, Gardening, Etc. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1960
Description: Fine in VG+ DJ. Dust jacket has tiny chip bottom corner. 16 stories including ones by Philip Roth, Elizabeth Spencer, Glendon Swarthout, etc. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. read more
Edition: First Edition, Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Story Parade
Date Published: 1937
Description: B/W Illus. Very Good. Magazine. 8 vo. Items by, or illustrated by: Grace Paull, Alice Meynell (poem), Howard Simon, Mabel Leigh Hunt, Alexander Key, Blanche Cowley Yound, Elizabeth Coatsworth (poem), Wilfrid Bronson, Lorene K. Fox, Dorothy Bayley, Margaret Thorne, Walter Barnes. read more
Edition: First Edition, Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Story Parade
Date Published: 1937
Description: B/W Illus. Very Good. Magazine. 8 vo. Items by, or illustrated by: Glen Rounds (Lumbercamps), Hildegarde Hawthorne, Elizabeth Curtis, Catherine Cate Coblentz (poem), Aileen L. Fisher (poem), Arthur T. Quiller-couch (poem), Helen Finger, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Decie Merwin, Wilfrid Bronson, Eloise Lownesbery, Barbara Nolan, Patricia Hagan 46 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition, Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Story Parade
Date Published: 1937
Description: B/W Illus. Very Good. Magazine. 8 vo. Items by, or illustrated by: Wilfrid Bronson, Kathryn Worth, Decie Merwin, Lorene K. Fox, Dorothy Bayley, Elizabeth W. Baker, Henry C. Pitz, Ellis Credle, Ruby Warner, May Lamberton Becker. 45 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition, Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Story Parade
Date Published: 1937
Description: B/W Illus. Very Good. Magazine. 8 vo. Items by, or illustrated by: Leonard Weisgard, Walter De La Mare (Sambo), Fritz Eichenberg, Clara Lambers, Carol Ryrie Brink, Howard Simon, Harold Jones, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Elizabeth Curtis, Barbara Nolan 46 pages. read more
Edition: 1ST AMERICAN
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
Date Published: 1957
Description: ISMAR DAVID"JACKET ARTIST. BOOK IS VG+IN BLACK CLOTH/JACKET IS VERY GOOD(EDGEWEAR) *AUTHORS 1ST BOOK* PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND AS "A CASE OF EYE SHADOW". read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rand McNally & Company
Date Published: 1923
Description: Gregory, Dorothy Lake. Good. No Jacket. Size: Small 8vo. Blue cloth with color paste-down illustration on cover, gilt lettering and decoration, four stories, each with a delightful color illustration, 82 pages. Corners and spine ends bumped, gilt lettering and decoration is worn in places on front cover and nearly worn off on spine; slight cock, owner's name on ffep is crossed out with marker, two pages have bottom edge turned up a little, small stain on one page, otherwise interior is clean ... read more
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