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Famous Players: The Mysterious Death of William Desmond Taylor
By Rick Geary
Nbm, August 2009, $15.95
No one does murder like Rick Geary. For more than a decade he’s been regularly creating slim books in this loose series, each depicting a separate, horribly violent crime of passion in his inimitable crisp and detailed style, each with enough Geary detachment and subdued whimsy to keep the blood from being too much. This is the tenth – not including an earlier, larger-format Treasury of Victorian Murder, Vol. 1, which had shorter stories and served as a dry run for the later books – and Geary is still at it. As usual, he’s digging into once-scandalous events from about a century ago; the series was explicitly “Victorian” until last year’s Lindbergh Child, and this book examines a murder case in the early days of Hollywood.
After a few pages of scene-setting – and no one does scene-setting better than Geary, »
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