Interesting but lost it at the profiling episodes

Really enjoyed this series - the narration and dramatised sections were great and it waa super interesting to learn more about the black dahlia murder investigation and all the murders that may be related.
Unfortunately for me the series lost its way at the last four chapters that were discussions with modern crime profilers. I just found myself drifting off and didn't get past fhe first one. I'm sure some people will find it engaging but for me I was happy to end the listen there. Definitely we'll worth a download though!

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Hollywood Noir

"Hollywood And Crime : Black Dahlia" is more of an 18 part series than a book and is concerned with not just one gruesome murder,but several.Whilst the death of Elizabeth Short is at the centre of the this work.the series attempts to link her murder with other "Werewolf Murders" of 1940's Los Angeles.The investigations of each crime are dramatised and later re-analysed by modern day experts.We're left asking ourselves was there a proto serial killer on the loose in 40's L.A. or did the time and place create the circumstances for a number of similar,but seperate horrendous murders !

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Episodes 1-12 are excellent. Then………

Episodes 1-12 are brilliant listening. Great dialogue and acting, and very atmospheric of the time they were set in.
However from episode 13 onwards I lost interest completely as the format changed to a studio based discussion. Did these experts (and I use the term very loosely) ever imagine that they were going to tie up the case 70 years after Los Angeles’s finest were unable to do so?
I’m afraid it just degenerated into even more speculation, baseless hypothesis and pure guesswork.
Still, I’m really glad I listened to the first 12 parts.

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Story very interesting

As always, the American accent is off putting, but the story made it worthwhile to me.

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crime

interesting an insightful but no conclusion to the crimes which is disappointing shame serial killer wasn't used back then.

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Black Dahlia plus other murders

At first, I was surprised that it wasn't about the Black Dahlia. The book's main themes are around the murders that occurred in 1940's. It is extremely well written and the narration is possibly the best that I have found. It is done in such a way that you are transported back to the time of WW2 America. Awesome!

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50% good

The first 12 episodes or so, where the cases of the different women are explained and potentially linked were very interesting. However, the 'expert' discussions were a let down, as it really just boiled down to speculation and some bold but otherwise unsubstantiated claims. I didn't think they would solve the case, but the discussions were not really that expert... just using a few stock phrases to sound knowledgeable. The last chapter was particularly strange because it had nothing to do with the dahlia murders.

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love it

loved it 18 stories pass the time when bored great stuff very intereesting cool

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Excellent detail

Learnt alot. To be picky, each episode not long enough without end and beginning credits interrupting.

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Did not finish

A strung together series of podcasts which could have been interesting individually but put together made for a repetitious mess. The introductory title, warning that because of the graphic violence, this might not be for everyone, and the suggestion that newcomers to the story return to the beginning occurred every 25 minutes or so and really should have been edited out.

A series of murders occurring at different times in L.A. are suggested as perhaps being in someway linked or similar to the so called Black Dahlia killing. Again, for a series/podcast this would have been interesting but for an Audiobook named for the Black Dahlia, it would have been preferable to at least start with that case and then work on to others, which is not what happened, annoyingly.

The quality of the recording was poor. The performances of the actors was good but scenes were very brief and an actual text would have far better conveyed the stories.
I finally gave up towards the end of episode 9, a little over half way through, on what should have been a fascinating true crime piece.

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