Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder

Piu Eatwell

Oct 2017 · Liveright Publishing

About this ebook

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection
One of Bustle's "Best True Crime Books of the Year"

“[A] juicy page turner . . . capturing both the allure and the perils of the dream factory that promised riches and fame.”—New York Times Book Review

The gruesome 1947 murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short holds a permanent place in American lore as one of our most inscrutable true-crime mysteries. In a groundbreaking feat of detection hailed as “extensive” and “convincing” (Bustle), skilled legal sleuth Piu Eatwell cracks the case after seventy years, rescuing Short from tabloid fodder to reveal the woman behind the headlines. Drawing on recently unredacted FBI and LAPD files and exclusive interviews, Black Dahlia, Red Rose is a gripping panorama of noir-tinged 1940s Hollywood and a definitive account of one of the biggest unsolved murders of American legal history.

Ratings and reviews

Loved this book. It went in depth into the life of the doomed Black Dahlia Elizabeth Short and of the world around her. New details and fresh research has gone into finding a very strong suspect for this case. All facts presented are backed up by research and the endnotes and bibliography were engrossing and gave me a shopping list of books to read .

So gripping and so well researched. A very informative true crime while also containing the artistry of the genre.

Amazing, the amount of corruption that existed before non-stop news was created.

About the author

Piu Eatwell is the author of Black Dahlia, Red Rose and The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse and has produced and researched historical documentaries for the BBC and other channels, including the widely acclaimed film Charles Manson: The Man Who Killed the Sixties. She divides her time between Paris and London with her husband and three children.