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Title:Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
Author:William J. Mann
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 463 pages
Published:October 14th 2014 by Harper (first published January 1st 2014)
Categories:Nonfiction. Crime. True Crime. History. Mystery
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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 tale 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 ascendency 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 unpack the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that 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, 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.

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ISBN: 0062242164 (ISBN13: 9780062242167)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime (2015)


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Meh. The author William Mann makes his theory sound like it is the end all answer to this mystery, but a little research shows there have been no less than four books specifically about this murder. Each giving its own theory. So I say again, Meh.

I think the butler did it so he could wear the pretty pink garment (which was never identified as a nightgown or robe or silk boxer shorts or..anything...). End of story. But my review: On page 111, Mann writes, "Snyder ended up in Los Angeles, that place of last resort for so many fugitives." Oh, really? On the same page, Mann puts 4 other statements in quotes and offers source information: "servant for life'' and "there never was a more devoted man serving another" and "defrocked priest" and

Not finishing this one people. I don't like it. And quite frankly, I don't care. This book started out interesting and intriguing. Now I wish everyone was murdered instead of just the one guy.

I'm convinced. Wish I knew what Taylor was being blackmailed for...

I keep trying out more and more true crime, but alas again...This one supposedly tells of the murder of movie director William Desmond Taylor, with the infancy of the movie industry as its backdrop.Sadly, in this long, long book, there's hardly anything about the murder. It also endeavors to bring some closure to the case, but only tells of a confession, and leaves it at that, without wrapping up the book, or saying a word about what said confession meant, what impact it did or didn't have,

Tinseltown is a true crime book about the murder of actor-director William Desmond Taylor. This was a legendary crime that has remained unsolved (until now?). Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the "Roaring Twenties"...a town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, and starlets already past their prime. The author makes a good case, and does capture the spirit of early Hollywood. It also tells how powerful and manipulative the movie studios were, which was definitely one of the

Relentlessly repetitious, covering the same ground over and over and over again, and eventually boring. Mann has to learn that once he has descriptively related a characteristic of a person, there is no need to repeat it in every chapter that relates to that person. How many times did he have to tell the reader that Adolph Zukor was short, for example? And he ends his chapters like bad movie serial cliffhangers, The resolution to the mysterious murder of film director William Desmond Taylor in