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Title: Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story by Steve Hodel ISBN: 1-55970-664-3 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 11 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.02 (126 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Book is of No Value
Comment: I disagree with another reviewer that this book is well written. Might be well edited, but so is the phone book. Hodel's writing is mediocre at best. The subject matter is ponderous and the findings laughable if not ludicrous. A smooth move to capitalize on the Black Dahlia case, and every other unsolved murder with the least notoriety in the Los Angeles area. All this without the back-up of credible evidence, or believable police work. A preposterous assault on credibility, not to mention an unscrupulous assualt on the memory of a dead father. Not worth buying. Not worth reading.
Rating: 1
Summary: IT IS BORING AND IT STINKS
Comment: Sorry to be so blunt but this is a total bore. I can't understand the reviewers who say this is interesting. It reads like a padded-up textbook made to look like fiction. I found this a very long, tedious read, and I sat through it because I spent the money. I could not believe any of it, and all of it sounds like it has been pulled out of thin air. Which is what it is to me: thin air. One reviewer says it is "hot air," like you use to lift a balloon. I guess hot air is what they used to lift this one into the book market. I am sorry I bought this book. I do not like the author who sounds throughout the book pompous, self-important, and with no credibility in what he is trying to pass off as the "Solution" to all these unsolved murders. Totally unbelievable, and I did not for an instant believe the pictures he claims are of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, as in fact here. They do not remotely look like Elizabeeth Short, except for the dark hair. The use of artist Man Ray and his work is just as absurd. Here is almost 500 pages of what another reviewer calls it: "Baloney."
Rating: 2
Summary: So Many Unanswered Questions
Comment: When this book first came out I was eager to read it. I found the book to be incredibly well written and very plausible. I even contacted the PR people who handled the book. Knowing reporters with major networks, I was told that a major interview with the author was taking place in California. I waited. No interview. I called my friend at the network and was told; we want to run it but we're having problems. Too many unaswered questions. It never ran.
Now, a year later, I have grave doubts about the authenticity of this book. If it were true, it would have been a runaway best seller. The author would have been on all the talk shows. He would be a household name by now. There are other incidents which I do not want to share on line that have led me to believe this book, which I so enjoyed, may not be what it's trumped up to be. If you go to the official author's site, you see the photo of a very unhappy and haunted man. Certainly not the photo I would put on MY website.
The book, if you read it as fiction, is excellent. It would make a very interesting movie. But it would have to be presented as fiction. Could it all be true? Of course. But after a year of no publicity, no interviews, no promotion on the east coast whatsoever, one has to conclude there are too many unaswered questions.
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Title: Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder by John Gilmore ISBN: 1878923102 Publisher: Amok Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer : The Identity of America's Most Notorious Serial Murderer--Revealed at Last by Janice Knowlton ISBN: 0671880845 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Childhood Shadows: The Hidden Story of the Black Dahlia Murder by Mary Pacios ISBN: 1585004847 Publisher: 1st Books Publishing Company Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.15 |
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Title: The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy ISBN: 0446674362 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title:Case Reopened: The Black Dahlia with Joseph Wambaugh ASIN: B00002SSLJ Pub. Date: 10 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.95 |
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