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Issue: Famous Players: The Mysterious Death of William Desmond Taylor (A Treasury of XXth Century Murder) #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2009
 
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Indicia Publisher: Nantier • Beall • Minoustchine Publishing inc.
On Sale Date: 06/24/2009
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Pages: 88
ISBN: 9781561635559
UPC/EAN: 978156163555951595
Price: $15.95 USD
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Content Items: 19 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 16cm x 24cm
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: graphic novel
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Genres: crime, historical, non-fiction
Character(s): William Desmond Taylor
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Inside Front Flap

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Title Page and Credits

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Character(s): William Desmond Taylor
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Famous Players Bibliography

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Los Angeles and Vicinity 1922

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Los Angeles and the Hollywood District 1922

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400-414 Alvarado St. Los Angeles February 1, 1922

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Character(s): William Desmond Taylor; Edna Purviance; Douglas MacLean; Faith MacLean
Synopsis: A diagram of William Desmond Taylor's bungalow.
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Part I: This Is Hollywood

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Character(s): William S. Hart; Thomas Edison; D. W. Griffith; William Fox; Louis B. Mayer; Samuel Goldwyn; Carl Laemmle; Mack Sennett; Charlie Chaplin; Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle; Keystone Cops; Mabel Normand; Adolph Zukor; Jesse Lasky; Mary Pickford; Mary Miles Minter; Cecil B. DeMille; William Desmond Taylor; Virginia Rappe
Synopsis: The story of filmmaking in Hollywood up to 1922.
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Part II: The Discovery of the Body

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Character(s): William Desmond Taylor; Gloria Swanson; Henry Peavey; Emile Jesserun; Edna Purviance; Mabel Normand; Thomas Ziegler; Francis Wallis; Fred Parsons; Charles Eyton; George Hopkins; Julia Crawford Ivers; Edward Sands
Synopsis: Film director William Desmond Talor is found dead by his cook. The police lose control of the chaotic crime scene as gawkers and industry insiders interfere with the investigation before they even arrive.
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Part III: The Fatal Night

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Character(s): William Desmond; Douglas Fairbanks; Howard Fellows; Marjorie Berger; Jesse Lasky; Henry Peavey; Mabel Normand; William Davis; Douglas MacLean; Faith MacLean
Synopsis: An account of the events on William Desmond Taylor's last night alive.
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Part IV: Who Was William Desmond Taylor?

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Character(s): William Desmond Taylor; Theda Bara; Mary Miles Minter; Charlotte Shelby; Henry Peavey; Thomas Woolwine; Marjorie Berger; Ada Deane-Tanner; Ethel May Hamilton; Neva Gerber; Claire Windsor; Kathleen Clifford; Betty Compson; Mabel Normand; Edward Sands
Synopsis: William Desmond Taylor's unusual life and multiple identities prior to becoming a motion picture director.
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Part V: The Suspects

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Character(s): Francis X. Bushman; William Desmond Taylor; Mary Miles Minter; Charlotte Shelby; Thomas Woolwine; Henry Peavey; Mabel Normand; Samuel Goldwyn; Mack Sennett
Synopsis: Various people are suspected of killing Taylor but no solid clues emerge.
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Part VI: An Open Case

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Character(s): Lillian Gish; Mary Miles Minter; Mabel Normand; Will Hays; Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle; Wallace Reid; Barbara La Marr; Olive Thomas; Jeanne Eagels; Rudolph Valentino; Asa Keyes; Buron Fitts; Henry Peavey; Thelma Todd; Lupe Velez; Elizabeth Short; Marilyn Monroe; George Reeves; James Dean; Nick Adams; Sal Mineo; Natalie Wood; William Holden; River Phoenix; Phil Hartman
Synopsis: The murder of William Desmond Taylor remains unsolved. Various other Hollywood deaths are touched upon.
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Back Cover

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