Betty Short Goes Hollywood: A Story of the Black Dahlia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798663788168)

When Elizabeth Short was discovered murdered and brutalized in January 1947, there followed the greatest manhunt in California's history, involving local, state, and federal law enforcement.

The Los Angeles Police Department considered this murder to be a signature killing due to the unique and perverse mutilations, bisection and exsanguination, and the fact that there were no similarly previous or subsequent murders, and they further surmised that the murderer never killed again.

The 'Black Dahlia' is America's most infamous, cold case and remains unsolved to this day and there is no proof whatsoever, only speculation as to the identity of the killer.

'Betty Short Goes Hollywood - A Story of the Black Dahlia' is a fictionalized account and imagined window into the time she spent in Los Angeles and San Diego. It is a Hollywood story in the truest sense.

A young woman, unsure of herself and her place in the world, with a clouded vision of becoming an actress, yet in a disabling search for love, arrives in the 'City of Angels'. It is the late summer of 1946 and the post-war era. Elizabeth Short is new to Hollywood.

The Story finds a young and vivacious Betty, out every day and evening, meeting many people, making friends and connections as she goes, and is seen as a supportive, loyal and genuine person with good character traits.

A core group of confidants are introduced, including several close girlfriends with whom she spends social occasions and shares similar interests.

There are also many other odd, shady figures and endearing characters she meets along the way.