[Read by Christopher Lane]The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true account of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence; yet Hollywood's glittering ascendancy was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies - including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to uncover the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse group of people who surrounded him - including three beautiful, ambitious actresses; a grasping stage mother; a devoted valet; and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount Pictures, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly minted legends, and starlets already past their prime - a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate.A true story recreated with the suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a storyteller at the peak of his powers - and the solution to a crime that has stumped detectives and historians for nearly a century.

Features acronyms categorized by government agencies, corporations, airports, medical terms, professional associations, artistic organizations, athletics, U.S. postal codes for the fifty states, and others. Reprint. LJ.

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A young single mother describes her move from small-town Oklahoma to Los Angeles, her passionate love affair with film producer David Allen, and her discovery that David's former girlfriend, Valerie, is a transsexual who used to be a man named Freddie Turner, who was stil wanted in connection with a two-decade-old murder. Reprint.

Offers a documented and reasoned solution to one of the strangest of all unsolved murders in the annals of modern crime, the murder of aspiring starlet Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles in 1947.

Explores the sixty-year-old murder mystery of Elizabeth Short, revealing both the identity and motivation of the killer, while discussing the corruption within the Los Angeles police department that prevented the case from being closed.

A former Los Angeles police officer recounts his discovery of the evidence that led him to conclude that his late father, Dr. George Hodel, had been the serial killer responsible for the death of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, in 1947 and other murders, offering updated information on previously unseen forensic evidence, photos, and unreleased documents. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Mysterious phone calls, a questionable ex-lover, and an unsolved murder unfold in Donita Woodruff's true life account. As a young, single mother of two, Woodruff meets Academy Award nominee David Allen.  The two are soon swept up in a whirlwind romance, but wedding bells can't hide the secrets her new husband has...read more

The author, a former Los Angeles police officer, recounts how he concluded that his late father, Dr. George Hodel, was the Black Dahlia Avenger, the serial killer responsible for the death of Elizabeth Short in 1947 and other murders.

Features acronyms categorized by government agencies, corporations, airports, medical terms, professional associations, artistic organizations, athletics, U.S. postal codes for the fifty states, and others. Reprint. LJ.

An illustrated account of the 1922 murder of flamboyant director William Desmond Taylor reconstructs the events leading up to the crime and speculates about the possible murderer. Reprint. NYT.

An analysis of the 1922 unsolved murder of film director William Desmond Taylor focuses on the two actresses in Taylor's life--ingenue Mary Miles Minter and Mabel Normand, a star and a drug addict