{"product_id":"tinseltown-murder-morphine-and-madness-at-the-dawn-of-hollywood-9780062242198","title":"Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William J. Mann\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harper Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Murder - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45154404532375,"sku":"9780062242198","price":1540.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780062242198.webp?v=1767148028","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/tinseltown-murder-morphine-and-madness-at-the-dawn-of-hollywood-9780062242198","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}