Summary

In this noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history--the 1921 manslaughter case against silent-screen comedy star Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle--Dashiell Hammett investigates what really happened at Arbuckle's San Francisco party and discovers a truth that will change American legal history--and his own life forever.

Notes

Map on endpapers.

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: 354 p. : col. map ; 24 cm.
• Edition Info: (trade pbk.) :$15.00

Subjects

• Mystery & Thrillers -- Mystery -- General
• Mystery & Thrillers -- Thrillers -- Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue
• Mystery & Thrillers -- Thrillers -- General
• Mystery & Thrillers -- General
• Arbuckle, Roscoe,1887-1933 -- Fiction
• Rappe, Virginia,1895-1921 -- Fiction
• Hammett, Dashiell,1894-1961 -- Fiction
• Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction
• Private investigators -- Fiction
• Trials (Murder) -- California -- Fiction

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