Megan Abbott: Superb storyteller, film noir scholar, deconstructionist suffused with a true artists passion. Poised to ascend to the top rung of crime writing and quite possibly something beyond James Ellroy On October 7, 1949, dark-haired starlet Jean Spangler kissed her five-year-old daughter good-bye and left for a night shoot at a Hollywood studio. She was never seen again. The only clues left...