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作       者:Mann, William J.

出  版  社:Harper

出版时间:2014-10-01

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Who killed Billy Taylor, one of Hollywood's most beloved men?For nearly a century, no one has known.Until now.In the early 1920s, millions of Americans flocked to movie palaces every year to see their favorite stars on the silver screen. Never before had a popular art so captured the public's imagination, nor had a medium ever possessed such power to influence. But Hollywood's glittering ascendancy was threatened by a string of lurid, headline-grabbing tragedies, including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the handsome and popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association a legendary crime that has remained unsolved since 1922. Now, in this fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William Mann draws on a rich host of sources, many untapped for decades, to reopen the case of the upstanding yet enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him including three loyal ingenues, a grasping stage mother, a devoted valet, a gang of two-bit thugs, the industry's reluctant new morals czar, and the 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 sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls and drug dealers, 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 re-created with the thrilling suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a master craftsman at the peak of his powers.
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Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Preamble to Intrigue

Prologue: A Cold Morning in Southern California

Part One: Suspects, Motives, and Circumstances

Chapter 1: A Man Called Creepy

Chapter 2: Babylon

Chapter 3: Three Desperate Dames

Chapter 4: The Orator

Chapter 5: A Race to the Top

Chapter 6: Mabel

Chapter 7: Gibby

Chapter 8: Mary

Chapter 9: Rivals and Threats

Chapter 10: Good-Time Girl

Chapter 11: Locusts

Chapter 12: The Maddest Woman

Chapter 13: Impudent Things

Chapter 14: Dope Fiends

Chapter 15: Greater Than Love

Chapter 16: The Sex Thrill

Chapter 17: Prying Eyes

Chapter 18: So This is What is Going On

Chapter 19: Five Thousand Feet of Immorality

Chapter 20: Bunco Babe

Chapter 21: Among the Lions

Chapter 22: Depravity

Chapter 23: Questions of Loyalty

Chapter 24: A Cluster of Calamities

Chapter 25: A Product of the Gutters

Chapter 26: Riding for a Fall

Chapter 27: Bad Checks

Chapter 28: The Highest Possible Standards

Chapter 29: On Edge

Chapter 30: A Work So Important

Chapter 31: A Ghastly Strain

Chapter 32: A House in the Hills

Chapter 33: Last Day

Chapter 34: A Shot

Part Two: Hunting, Hustling, and Hiding

Chapter 35: The Dead Man on the Floor

Chapter 36: Reactions

Chapter 37: King of the Cops

Chapter 38: The Moral Failures of One Concern

Chapter 39: “Do You Think that I Killed Mr. Taylor?”

Chapter 40: Powder Burns

Chapter 41: Evidence Found

Chapter 42: Dames Even More Desperate

Chapter 43: The Need for Vigilance

Chapter 44: Taking Him for a Fool

Chapter 45: Mr. Hays Goes to Work

Chapter 46: The Morbidly Curious

Chapter 47: Her Own Boss

Chapter 48: No Time to Talk

Chapter 49: A Great Injustice Has Been Done

Chapter 50: A Question of Motives

Chapter 51: A Company of Outlaws

Chapter 52: The Savior

Chapter 53: The Sky’s the Limit

Chapter 54: The Spirits Speak

Chapter 55: Last Chance

Chapter 56: Evidence Missing

Chapter 57: Trigger Happy

Chapter 58: A Cold-Blooded Business

Chapter 59: No Happy Endings

Chapter 60: Raising Capital

Chapter 61: A New Man on the Job

Chapter 62: Unfair Competition

Chapter 63: Trapped Like Rats

Chapter 64: Coming Out of Hiding

Chapter 65: The End of the Road

Chapter 66: Readjustments

Chapter 67: Unexpected Developments

Chapter 68: Manhunt

Part Three: Closing the Case

Chapter 69: Three Dames No Longer So Desperate

Chapter 70: End of an Era

Chapter 71: “We Are Making Real Progress”

Epilogue: A Confession

What Happened to Everyone Else

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Photographic Insert

Books By William J. Mann

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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