Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder the most extensive non-fiction accounts of Elizabeth Short's murder. The grisly 1947 murder of aspiring starlet and nightclub habitué 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 glamour-cum-sordidness. The book offer a documented solution to the case as endorsed by law enforcement and forensic science experts. Through the narrative, Gilmore, whose father was an LAPD officer at the time of the murder, unravels the multilayered mystery of Short's slaying. Gilmore tells several previously unrevealed stories at once,
Seventh Victim Seventh Victim "Seventh Victim" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert Sheckley, originally published in" Galaxy Science Fiction "in 1953. In 1957 it was adapted for NBC's "X Minus One" radio play as "The Seventh Victim." It was heavily revised for the 1965 Italian movie "The 10th Victim". Sheckley published a novelization of the film under that title the next year, and later followed with two sequels, 1987's "Victim Prime" and 1988's "Hunter/Victim." The story concerns a future society that has eliminated major warfare by allowing members of society who are inclined to violence to join The