A DEED OF DEATH. The Story Behind the Unsolved Murder of Hollywood Director William Desmond Taylor

Hardback. Who killed William Desmond Taylor? In 1922 he was a top director at Paramount - responsible for the huge success of the films of one of the great stars of the day, Mary Miles Minter, who was madly in love with him (she was 20, he was 50). But he loved Mabel Normand, a star at the Goldwyn studio, a drug addict who asked his help in fighting her addiction. His murder was a sensation in its day and has remained an unsolved mystery. The author uncovered, and reveals for the first time what probably happened. A book which brings back almost forgotten aspects of the early days of movie-making - the post-World War I drug culture and the boomtown atmosphere, with its mixture of naivete and quasi-sophisticated decadence that so strongly coloured the Hollywood of silent films. Profusely Illus., Appendix, Bibliog. and Index. 275pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. With signs of small label removal to fpd o/w Vg+ in vg. pcdw.