The gruesome murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Brief, in the noir-tinged Los Angeles of 1947, includes a permanent put in place American lore as one of the most inscrutable of true-crime mysteries. Now, Piu Eatwell-relentless legal sleuth and atmospheric stylist-cracks the case after seventy years. With recently unredacted FBI data files, newly released parts of the LAPD files, and explosive brand-new interviews, Eatwell offers unprecedented usage of primary proof and a persuasive culprit. She layers her findings into a gritty, cinematic retelling from the case from the corrupt LAPD as well as the take-no-prisoners press to the seedy underworld of would-be actresses and the men who preyed with them. In mesmerizing prose, Black Dahlia, Crimson Rose is normally a panorama of 1940s Hollywood, a definitive account of one of the biggest unsolved murders of American legal history.