Cathi Unsworth, “Mistress of Crime” Writes an Unsworthy Introduction to Author Brian Robb’s, “Black Dahlia: the art of killing”-World Crime Magazine

July 6, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington This is a follow-up, Part II, to the earlier posted blog, “ForteanTimes, Weird Crime Magazine, Black Dahlia: the art of killing.”  …”But it was retired LA cop Steve Hodel’s 2004 Black Dahlia Avenger that convinced everyone from James Ellroy to the LAPD’s former head of detectives*, James McMurray, that…

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Man Ray/William Seabrook 1930 Photographs: Mysogyny or Surrealists Exploration of Eroticism?

June 28, 2025 Birch Bay, Washington Warning: This blog post contains explicit Sado/Masochistic sexual photographs by Man Ray circa 1930. First, let me give a much belated, thank you, to blog reader “KKD” for his reply/comment below received on January 14, 2023 (synchronistically, the anniversary date of Elizabeth Short’s actual murder) on my two-year-old post,…

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