Reminder: The next Black Dahlia Book Club will be Tuesday, September 15, at 10 a.m. Pacific time on YouTube. In this session, I will discuss what we know about the LAPD files in the Black Dahlia case, even though the department refuses to release them. The next Black Dahlia Ask Me Anything is October 6, 2026.
Bidding in a charity auction for a signed, inscribed first edition of Michael Connelly’s The Narrows will conclude with this session.
Send bids to LMHarnisch@Gmail.com with “The Narrows” in the subject field. I will post the bids (if any) once a day. As of September 8, the high bid was $100.
Reminder: Don’t dress up like the Black Dahlia for Halloween. Don’t do it.
Email me your questions and I’ll answer them!
I am auctioning for charity a signed, inscribed first edition of Michael Connelly’s The Narrows starting today and ending with the Black Dahlia Book Club on September 15. The winner will donate the bid amount to a charity of their choice in memory of Elizabeth Short. Send me proof of the donation, and the book will be in the mail.
There are some obstacles that even love cannot overcome, or so David Everett has discovered. The 30-year-old mechanic is in critical condition at Torrance General Hospital after shooting himself in the head and neck in despondency over his frustrated love for his 17-year-old first cousin Janet. And yes, she lives in a trailer park.
Los Angeles, Calif.,
Note: This is an encore post from 2006.
I recently made an investigation of the tattoo shops here and the persons who operate them, for a friend of mine, whose young son, age 13, had been marked up like a circus freak by a so called (professor) 
September 2, 1910, the Herald publishes its version of the incident.
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