Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood Paperback - 2015
by William J. Mann
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In the early 1920s, Hollywood was threatened by a string of scandals--including the murder of the handsome, secretly haunted actor and director William Desmond Taylor, a crime that went unsolved for nearly a century. Now, in this fiendishly involving New York Times bestseller--hailed as "a must-read" by Liz Smith--William Mann draws on a rich host of sources, many untapped for decades, to revisit the case of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him--including three loyal ingenues, a devoted valet, a gang of two-bit thugs, and moguls Adolph Zukor and Marcus Loew, locked in a struggle for control of the exploding industry. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a town filled with celebrities, party girls, and drug dealers--a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate.
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- Title Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
- Author William J. Mann
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Paperbacks
- Date 2015-10-06
- ISBN 9780062242198 / 0062242199
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.44 x 1 in (20.47 x 13.82 x 2.54 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1920's
- Cultural Region: Southern California
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.152
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- People Weekly, 10/12/2015, Page 52
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