Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, (Paperback)

from annhepburn

Very into this one. The murder of a Hollywood executive is really just the excuse to examine the VERY INTERESTING LIVES of three late 1910s-early 1920s actresses: Mabel Normand, Mary Miles Minter, and Margaret "Gibbie" Gibson. The stories of these three women occasionally cross one another, but r...

from LibraryCin

3.5 stars William Desmond Taylor was a silent movie director into the 1920s when he was murdered. His killer was never found, or at least, never tried or convicted. There were suspicions on who might have done it, but no arrests and nothing proven. This book looks at his murder, along with other ...

from seasonsoflove

This is a fantastic, gripping, brilliant true crime book. What I noticed about Tinseltown right from the start is that it reads like a novel. It felt like I had picked up a whodunit, and was completely sucked in. Mann has this great writing style that is so easy and fun to read. This is also an a...

from michigantrumpet

Lovers of movie history and true crime murder stories will love William J. Mann's latest narrative non-fiction effort, "Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood." Set in the early 1920's, the book is two stories running in tandem. The first focuses on the death of silent ...

from 68papyrus

Tinseltown was an interesting and well researched non fiction read. The author gives the reader an insider's look into the dawn of early Hollywood. My favorite parts of the book were the details of the murder of director, William Desmond Taylor. The other scandals that were detailed didn't hold m...