THE HOLLYWOOD MURDER CASEBOOK

Michael Munn

Robson 1987

Michael Munn found that again and again in his research as a writer on Hollywood and the cinema he came across cases of murder that seemed somehow to typify the extra pressures of a life in the public eye.

From the notorious case in 1921 in which Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle was tried three times for the same offence, to the deaths of gig young and his bride of three weeks in 1978, each of the thirteen cases presented here speaks compellingly for itself – jointly they tell a story of Hollywood that has not been told before.

From the first shoot-outs in the West to the present-day hi-tech security measures taken to thwart would-be attackers, this engrossing book looks at the most outrageous of the crimes fuelled by the high stakes of the movie industry.

Courtroom drama, sensational revelations, mystery, sex and suspense are all found in the pages of The Hollywood Murder Casebook.

Both the book and the dust jacket are in excellent condition