Black Dahlia Avenger Rev Ed

Steve Hodel has entirely convinced himself of two things: his father's guilt in a number of murders, the most prominent being that of the infamous Black Dahlia; and the LAPD's complicit cover-up of him being considered as a suspect, which continues to this day, according to his book. I can appreciate the zeal with which he presents his case, both as a former investigator and as the offspring of an “evil” man, but the circularity and uncertainty of the evidence he uses to argue his point frustrate me. Perhaps if he had access to the physical evidence - which he continually refers to as things that would potentially verify his conclusions - I'd have taken his assumptions for more than face value. As it stands, the book is a very long assessment of evidence that ultimately proves nothing; his proximity to his suspect notwithstanding, this is simply a very well done work of historically-based fiction that can never be proven, much like [a:James Ellroy 2887 James Ellroy http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1251268467p2/2887.jpg]'s [b:The Black Dahlia 21704 The Black Dahlia James Ellroy http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167323078s/21704.jpg 434].