| Devil's Garden Contributor(s): Atkins, Ace (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425232662 ISBN-13: 9780425232668 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 Annotation: From the critically acclaimed, award-nominated author comes a new 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - General - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.90 lbs) 400 pages |
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| Publisher Description: From the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson series comes a noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history. San Francisco, September 1921 Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel-girls, jazz, bootleg hooch...and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed her--crushed her under his weight--and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearst's newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict. In desperation, Arbuckle's defense team hires an operative from the famed Pinkerton detective agency to investigate and, they hope, discover the truth. The agent's name is Dashiell Hammett... and what he discovers will change American legal history--and his own life--forever |