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Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
HardBoiled Hollywood Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
Author: Jon Lewis
Two spectacular dead bodies?Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, and Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her home in August 1962?bookend this new history of Hollywood?s postwar transition. Short?s murder called attention to the lives of the many disenfranchised in Los Angeles; she was, aft...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520284326
ISBN-10: 0520284321
Publication Date: 5/23/2017
Pages: 235
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
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