Welcome to Totally Book Live at the Whitby Hotel. I am so excited to be interviewing so many

amazing authors, and today I get to talk to Eli Frankl, who's the author of Sisters and Death,

the Black Dahlia, the Prairie heiress, and their hunter. Congratulations. Thank you. Good to be here.

Yay. Okay, Eli,

tell us about this book. Wow, where do I start? So, yeah, I mean, I've been a huge researcher,

very intense researcher, I guess, you could say of the Black Dahlia murder for about 20, 25 years now.

But more as like a hobbyist, as a passive reader of everybody else's books and articles and

thoughts online. And there's quite a bit of forums online regarding the murder and all kinds

of evidence. And I mean, there's hundreds of names associated with the investigation that

occurred and a lot of evidence that was brought forward.

So it's a lot to get through.

But eventually I got to the point where I started to realize there were areas of the investigation that had never been looked into.

And I kind of crossed the Rubicon where I realized there's still investigation.

There's still room for investigating this case.

Not everything has been looked through and picked over.

And so I decided I'm going to try to acquire all of the primary documents and records from this case and look into it as a hobby, just for fun, because

as a true crime fan, I love researching different cases and getting deep into the weeds

as some people do and rabbit-hulling.

And what I discovered in my investigation and looking at all these primary sources was that there was one particular

suspect who had been essentially the top suspect back in the late 1940s when the LAPD was

investigating the case and remained at the top of that suspect list until the case went cold

in the early to mid-1950s.

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