Ellroy Reads – The Song is You by Megan Abbott

For the latest episode of Ellroy Reads, I discuss Megan Abbott’s The Song is You. Abbott has described The Song is You and her early novels as ‘love songs to James Ellroy’, and the subject matter is a real-life Hollywood mystery. The novel concerns the disappearance of the actress Jean Spangler. Spangler vanished in 1949 and has never been found. The case has some parallels with the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short ‘The Black Dahlia’, which occurred in LA two years earlier. Jean Spangler and Betty Short even looked alike. Abbott takes the case and turns it into a riveting Hollywood noir.

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