THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDERS

De: Douglas V Dollard

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

ONLY SLOWLY DID HER DISARTICULATED CORPSE emerge from a winter’s low-hanging mist. At first, early morning joggers thought the bloodless limbs were broken pieces from the cold white marble of 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 gruesome 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. Is this a copycat killing, or is it conceivable the two victims met their gruesome deaths at the hands of the same killer? When the police fail to find the killer, or even a viable suspect, the victim’s twenty-three-year-old roommate takes matters into her own hands. But hiring a private detective has its own drawbacks, as she is soon to discover when evidence implicates a powerful member of government. In his most baffling and dangerous case yet, Michael 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.