Cast of Killers
by Sidney Kirkpatrick
ISBN: 0451174186
ISBN-13: 9780451174185
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: New Amer Library
Published date: 1992
Size: 4.25 x 7 inches
Weight: 0.4 pounds
Publisher's Notes
An illustrated account of the 1922 murder of flamboyant director William Desmond Taylor reconstructs the events leading up to the crime and speculates about the possible murderer. Reprint. NYT.
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Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
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