The Crime, Corruption, and CoverUp of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder
by Piu Eatwell
appears in True Crime, Mystery & Crime, and History.
The gruesome 1947 murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short holds a permanent place in American lore as one of our most inscrutable truecrime 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 r...
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