Murder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen Mystery

List of Illustrations

Illustrations William Desmond Taylor in 1921 4 Taylor with Mary Miles Minter 8 Betty Compson 12 Taylor’s houseman Henry Peavey 18 Mabel Normand at Taylor’s dressing table 21 Taylor in his touring car 53 Los Angeles district attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine 56 The bungalow court where Taylor lived and died 59 Charlotte Shelby, Mary Miles Minter, Julia Ragan Miles, Margaret Shelby, circa 1915 63 Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett 84 George James Hopkins, May McAvoy, and William Desmond Taylor at Realart Studio, 1921 86 Los Angeles police detectives at murder scene, Taylor’s apartment 1922 93 Mary Miles Minter,1919 96 Mabel Normand, 1921 97 Letter to Taylor from Mary Miles Minter 99 Taylor in a nightgown, carrying a stringbag 100 Police photo/drawing of the murder scene, 1922 127 Diagram of the bungalow court 135 Taylor’s funeral, Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1922 137 Los Angeles district attorney Buron Fitts 187 xi Special acknowledgment to Bruce Long xiii Murder in Hollywood ...