The Black Dahlia Murders

ONLY SLOWLY DID HER DISARTICULATED CORPSE emerge from a winter's low-hanging mist. Early morning joggers thought the bloodless limbs were broken pieces of white marble from nearby statues. Only when the mist had completely evaporated did it become apparent these arms and legs had once been rose-colored flesh. Sixty-five years earlier and a continent away a similar crime went unsolved. Now, however improbable the killer appears to have struck again---only this time his target was the...
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ONLY SLOWLY DID HER DISARTICULATED CORPSE emerge from a winter's low-hanging mist. Early morning joggers thought the bloodless limbs were broken pieces of white marble from nearby statues. Only when the mist had completely evaporated did it become apparent these arms and legs had once been rose-colored flesh. Sixty-five years earlier and a continent away a similar crime went unsolved. Now, however improbable the killer appears to have struck again---only this time his target was the headstrong daughter of a United States Senator. In his most baffling and dangerous case yet, Riley tracks a cunning and skillful predator through the murky history of Hollywood?s golden age with its studio system of contract actors, aspiring starlets, legendary screenwriters and renowned directors.