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,
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize The Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is an annual short fiction competition run by the "Australian Book Review". The Prize, with total prize money of AU$12,500 and 'generating over a thousand new stories each year', is 'hotly contested' and considered 'one of Australia’s most lucrative prizes for an original short story' on the Australian literary calendar. The Prize was originally known as the "ABR" Short Story Competition when it was established in 2010, however the "ABR" renamed the award 'in honour of Elizabeth Jolley, and first awarded it under its new name, the "ABR" Elizabeth