Cast of Killers

This account of the 1922 murder of film director William Desmond Taylor reveals the complete untold story--secretly solved by director King Vidor prior to his death in 1982--of one of the most famous crime mysteries in America

A Cast of Killers

Kirkpatrick, Sidney D.

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Thomas Eakins was misunderstood in life, his brilliant work earned little acclaim, and hidden demons tortured and drove him. Yet the portraits he painted more than a century ago captivate us today, and he is now widely acclaimed as the finest portrait painter our nation has ever produced. This book recounts the artist’s life in fascinating detail, drawing on a treasure trove of Eakins family correspondence and papers that have only recently been discovered.Never before has Thomas Eakins’s story been told with such drama, clarity, and accuracy. Sidney Kirkpatrick sets the painter’s life and art in the wider context of the changing world he devoted himself to portraying, and he also addresses the artist’s private lifethe contradictory impulses, obsessions, and possible psychological illness that fired his work. Kirkpatrick underscores Eakins’s unflinching integrity as an artist and discloses how his profound appreciation of the beauty of the human form was both the source of his greatness and ultimately of his undoing. Nevertheless, the author observes, Eakins has had his revenge,” inspiring a new generation of realist painters and gaining the recognition that eluded him in life.

The Revenge of Thomas Eakins

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

The Revenge of Thomas Eakins (Henry Mcbride Series in Modernism and Modernity)

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.

Humor & Entertainment

Onyx

A suspenseful account of the college professor who brought down a Colombian drug lord reveals how one man armed with a .357 Magnum took a very big bite out of crime. By the author of A Cast of Killers. Original. K.

Turning the Tide: One Man Against the Medellin Cartel

Biographies & Memoirs

ABRAHAMS, Peter

True Crime

On February 1, 1922, the distinguished silent-film director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles bungalow by an unknown assailant. Reports of strange activities at the scene of the crime circulated soon after. When the police arrived, was the head of Paramount Studios burning a bundle of papers in the fireplace, and was a well-known actress searching the house for letters she claimed were hers? Despite a full-scale investigation, the case was never solved; for sixty years is has remained a lingering Hollywood scandal. In 1967, more than forty years after Taylor's death, the great King Vidor, whose directing credits include Northwest Passage, The Fountainhead, Duel in the Sun, and War and Peace, determined to solve the mystery, which had haunted him throughout his career, in order to make a film about it. Through his intimate knowledge of both the studios and the stars, he succeeded, where dozens of professional detectives had failed, in discovering the identity of the murderer. But because his findings were so explosive, he decided he could never go public and locked his evidence away. After Vidor's death in 1982, Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, Vidor's authorized biographer, gained access to the evidence and reconstructed the amazing story of Taylor's murder and Vidor's investigation. With a cast of suspects that includes the actress Mabel Normand, a reputed drug addict; the beautiful ingénue, Mary Miles Minter; Mary's domineering mother, Charlotte Shelby; Taylor's homosexual houseman; and Taylor's secretary, who bore an uncanny resemblance to Taylor's mysteriously elusive brother, this true crime story has all the elements of a classic murder mystery. Covered up for more than half a century, the full story can now be told in all its riveting, shocking detail.

Dutton

Turning The Tide: One Man Against The Medellin Cartel

A suspenseful account of the college professor who brought down a Colombian drug lord reveals how one man armed with a .357 Magnum took a very big bite out of crime. By the author of A Cast of Killers. Original. K.

United States

We've heard the stories. Pharmaceutical companies failing to warn of side effects. Marketing drugs illegally. Whistleblowers bringing incriminating evidence of corporate machinations leading to huge verdicts and settlements. And in this true-legal thriller, it all started with butterfly ballots putting a presidential election on hold. Meet Stephen A. Sheller, an attorney whose career reads like an encyclopedia of the biggest legal cases of our time. Sheller fought tobacco companies and exposed fraud in their efforts to promote light cigarettes as safer than regular smokes, filed the first suit over the butterfly ballots in the controversial Bush v. Gore presidential election of 2000, and recovered a staggering $6.4 billion by going after pharmaceutical companies whose actions superseded patient safety. Pharmageddon: A Nation Betrayed is the inside story of Sheller’s fights to hold accountable powerful pharmaceutical companies for aggressively campaigning for their product’s distribution in spite of dangers and side effects many prescription drugs carry. From uncovering the devastating effects on children and elderly to defending all of our rights in an increasingly complex legal system, Sheller has uncovered greed and avarice displayed by these multi-billion dollar corporations. Discover what happens when a legal champion takes up a cause.

Pharmageddon: A Nation Betrayed: A National Trial Lawyer Reveals an Industry Spinning out of Control

Sheller Esq., Stephen A.

Professionals & Academics

Cape Cedar Media

Tells of Dr. Walter Alva's experinces in Peru as he struggled to excavate and protect the pre-Inca treasures at the lost tombs of the Lords of Sipan

Lords of Sipan: A True Story of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime

History

Americas

William Morrow & Co.

In February 1987, archaeologist and museum curator Dr. Walter Alva was asked to examine a collection of strange artifacts found in the home of a poor grave robber on Peru's remote north coast. The subsequent police inquiry traced the cache to an ancient pyramid at Sipan, where looters had plundered a royal tomb of a little known civilization called the Moche. This ransacking of the New World's richest archaeological discovery would set off an undercover investigation that would send shock waves through the international art world, culminating in the most comprehensive seizure of pre-Columbian antiquities in U.S. and European history. It would also trigger the excavation of the greatest archaeological discovery since Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun's tomb. In the kind of chase usually reserved for fictional crime thrillers, Alva and his intrepid team of excavators would put down their shovels and pick-up guns, confronting the looters and ultimately winning their support and cooperation. The pyramid at Sipan, they would discover, was not the burial place of a single Moche lord, but a Valley of the Kings of ancient Peru.

Lords of Sipan: A Tale of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime

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A Cast of Killers

The Revenge of Thomas Eakins

The Revenge of Thomas Eakins (Henry Mcbride Series in Modernism and Modernity)

A Cast of Killers

Turning the Tide: One Man Against the Medellin Cartel

A Cast of Killers

Turning the Tide: One Man Against the Medellin Cartel

Pharmageddon: A Nation Betrayed: A National Trial Lawyer Reveals an Industry Spinning out of Control

Lords of Sipan: A True Story of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime

Lords of Sipan: A Tale of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime