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Michael Munn’s *The Hollywood Murder Casebook* assembles ten years of research on the most sensational deaths that have haunted the film industry. Drawing on court records, biographies, and contemporaneous reports, the book scrutinises the murders of film legend Thomas Ince, director William Desmond Taylor, and actress Marilyn Monroe, and the mysterious and controversial deaths of Sharon Tate, Bruce Lee, and others. Munn explores the role of powerful figures—such as William Randolph Hearst, the Kennedy brothers, and mobster Bugsy Siegel—in Hollywood’s deadly underbelly, and examines the complex interplay between fame, ambition and violence that created a culture of fear and intrigue in Los Angeles' golden age.
First publish date: 1987
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Michael Munn
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