Forget everything you think you know about the Black Dahlia. For eighty years, Elizabeth Short has been a ghost story—a severed body in a vacant lot, a "femme fatale" in a tight black dress, a cautionary tale whispered in the dark. But what if the history books, the movies, and the podcasts were all wrong? What if the most famous cold case in American history wasn't solved by a detective with a badge, but by a biographer with a conscience? In William J. Mann and Black Dahlia Story, Charlie W. At...