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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition (October 27, 2004)
Publication Date: October 27, 2004
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Language: English
ASIN: B0040NQ8MM
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Contrary to the “Publisher's Weekly†review leading this section, I found that the book's author thoroughly and objectively laid-out the facts as they are known to properly conclude that Mary Miles Minter was, indeed, the murderess of William Desmond Taylor. The author left no stone unturned, inasmuch as what was recorded and what material remained to be investigated could be found. If only Mary Miles Minter's belongings and papers from the Bekins storage unit had not been burned upon her death, but searched instead, perhaps even more compelling evidence might have been added. As it is, for this reader, this book comes to the right and to the only conclusion possible given the well-articulated and vast array of lies, deception, misinformation, and spurious accounts given by so many characters who were either accused as suspects, or were wanted to be or found themselves in the spotlight as having a say in the matter, even those who were supposed to be enforcers of law and justice.
The flaws in this book are already well documented so I won't go into them except to say that this is not an objective investigation of the crime. Charles Higham appears to have developed a theory of the murder and worked backwards from that. Anyone whose statements or eye witness accounts do not fit his theory he simply brands a liar (with no supporting evidence by the way.) For example, a minor detail that has nothing to do with the crime: Taylor kept a .32 Savage Automatic in his dresser drawer. Higham fixates on this and claims that it was a Luger in the dresser drawer. Then he refers to the Luger as a revolver several times in the book. At the inquest one of the detectives refers to the Savage pistol's presence in the drawer, Higham accuses him of lying under oath. (Taylor owned a Luger Carbine, the long barreled version with a detachable shoulder stock; it was found in the closet.)Mr. Higham clearly has some kind of personal animosity toward Mary Miles Minter and that animosity fairly reeks from this book, starting with his grotesque physical description of the elderly woman in the very beginning. Vincent Bugliosi does not subject Charles Manson to the kind of vicious personal attack in Helter Skelter that Charles Higham subjects Mary Miles Minter to here.In short, Murder in Hollywood is poorly written, superficially researched, and doesn't appear to have been edited at all. It is the work of an author who clearly has an agenda and doesn't let minor details like the established facts get in the way.
I read this, it took some time to wade through the crap, and the biased rubbish that seems to come from an angry hollow place in the author's mind. He was so focused on trashing everyone, even the poor victim, William Desomnd Taylor. In reading this a growing feeling of distrust for the writer grew and grew, so that any conclusion Higham proposed became impossible to believe. In light of the slanted rubbish Higham was pushing in this book, I doubt I would ever trust any of his works, and he has published many a biography. AVOID this book if you want to know any FACTS. Higham misses the mark Big Time due to his own agenda getting in the way.
Having anticipated Charles Higham's treatment of the unsolved murder of William Desmond Taylor to be the book-to-end-all-books on the subject, my disappointment was palpable as I trudged through the final pages of this incoherent, typo-ridden volume. Presuming that Higham's facility with biographies would transfer well to the true-crime genre, I expected his effort here to be as polished and well-researched as his previous work; instead this book is a convoluted mess. Besides going into lengthy, irrelevant detail about the lives of people having absolutely nothing to do with the murder (i.e., Neva Gerber, Julia Crawford Ivers, etc.), Higham rambles endlessly, repeating himself often while at the same time curiously managing to contradict himself. His irritating habit of drawing conclusions without providing any real evidence to support his theories throws the entire presentation off kilter. For example, his insistence that an unidentified suicide victim found in Connecticut was Taylor's former employee, Edward Sands, simply because Higham feels that Sands should have killed himself, is simply preposterous. To add insult to injury, this book seems not to have been proof-read - there are a plethora of glaring typos that even a second-grade child would have caught. The fact that Higham had access to files previously unavailable only frustrates the reader further, as his continuous failure to present this new evidence in anything approaching a cohesive fashion denies the reader a clear understanding of such material. Perhaps I expected too much simply due to Higham's reputation - but I was thoroughly disappointed with this book. Its one saving grace (and perhaps what makes it a worthwhile volume for the silent film buff) is the sprinkling of rare photos including portraits of Mabel Normand, Mary Miles Minter and a strange photo of the usuallly dapper Taylor in a frilly nightgown(!). In my opinion, anyone interested in the William Desmond Taylor murder case would do better with the two previous books written on the subject: A Deed of Death by Robert Giroux and A Cast of Killers by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick. Both vastly surpass Higham's scattered tale in clarity, form and content, and both have a style and cohesiveness that Higham's sorely lacks.
I love trying to figure out what happened with William Desmond Taylor. I've read "Cast of Killers," "Tinseltown," and checked out Taylorology. This book is an excellent presentation from someone who actually interviewed Minter and others from that time and place.Even if you know nothing of the murder, it is a great read.
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