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January 29, 2012, was the 65th anniversary of the murder of Elizabeth Short. "Severed," by Gilmore, the first true crime study of the Black Dahlia, remains the most authoritive; according to Colin Wilson, "the best book on the Black Dahlia--in fact, the only reliable book."
Gilmore met Elizabeth Short in October, 1946, on her visit to Gilmore's grandmother, Margaret Knox, in the Silver Lake area. It was a week before Halloween. Gilmore was eleven years old, and Elizabeth Short was twenty-two. Less than three months later, Elizabeth was found brutally murdered.
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Acclaimed internationally for his literary fiction,
his hard-boiled true crime books and Hollywood memoirs, John Gilmore
has a following that spans the globe from London to Tokyo, from Hong Kong to Hollywood.
"John Gilmore is the quintessential L.A. noir writer..." Sydney
Morning Herald.
Book pages include Severed:
The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder , Inside Marilyn Monroe, Manson:
the Unholy Trail of Charlie and the Family, Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives & the Hollywood Death Trip, L.A. Despair: A Landscape of
Crimes and Bad Times, Crazy Streak, Cold-Blooded, Hollywood Boulevard, and more.
Spotlight focuses on his first-hand experiences with celebrities including Lenny Bruce,
Jayne Mansfield,
Janis Joplin, Jean Seberg, James Dean,
Ed Wood, Jr, Jack
Kerouac, Brigitte
Bardot, Hank Williams Sr., Jane Fonda, William
Burroughs, Dennis
Hopper,
Carlos Castaneda, Jim Morrison,
Sal Mineo,
Marilyn Monroe, Barbara
Payton, Mamie Van
Doren, Lisa
Boyle, Sharon Tate, and Neva Shaw. High-profile slayers
such as Charles Manson,
the Los Angeles
"Ice Blonde" Barbara Graham, hitchhike murderer
Billy Cook ("the kid with one bad eye and HARD LUCK knuckles"), Eddie Nash
and John Holmes are explored
in
depth in Gilmore's books
(see Crime Scenes (Black
Dahlia murder), (Wonderland)
and
interviews.
COMING SPRING 2012
AMOK BOOKS PRESENTS
"ON THE RUN WITH BONNIE & CLYDE"
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