VA Nurse Found Dead, Murderer At Large in Stairway to Murder by P.J. Conn Los Angeles, California, Summer, 1947 World War II G.I. turned gumshoe, Joe Ezell is hunting a murderer. A Los Angeles VA hospital nurse has been found dead, and RN Mary McBride, the love of Joe's life, is next. Has the Black Dahlia killer struck again or was it one of the VA hospital doctors trying to keep a malpractice case under...