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Tinseltown

- Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

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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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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780062242198
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 528
  • Udgivet:
  • 5. november 2015
  • Størrelse:
  • 204x136x23 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 398 g.
  • BLACK WEEK
Leveringstid: 2-3 uger
Forventet levering: 16. december 2024
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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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