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Hollywood and Crime

Original Crime Stories Set During the History of Hollywood

Author: Robert J. Randisi (Editor), Max Allan Collins
Hardback: 352 pages
Publisher: Pegasus Books (2007)
Avg. Rating: [4.00/10]
In Print? No

Unfortunately, the book's Stooges-related chapter involves the mystery of Ted Healy's death and buys into the untrue accounts alleged against Wallace Beery.  Although the tale by "Dick Tracy" comic strip writer Max Allan Collins is a nice narrative, readers are advised that its underlying "facts" are fiction.

Publishers Weekly (June 2007)...

"The 14 stories in this entertaining anthology from Shamus Award-founder Randisi span Tinsel Town history from the 1930s to the present and intersect, literally, at Hollywood and Vine. Top billing should go to Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch story, "Suicide Run," and to Lee Goldberg's "Jack Webb's Star;" the former for the detection and the latter for biggest laughs. Other highlights include Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens's reinvention of one of the Three Stooges, Moe Howard, as a detective in their clever "Murderlized," about the 1937 death of the Stooges' mentor, vaudevillian Ted Healy.  Robert S. Levinson delivers a wicked portrait of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in "And the Winner Is...," which turns on her lackey's efforts to stop a Nazi sharpshooter at the 1960 Academy Awards. From Harry Bosch's visit to a photographer at Hollywood & Vine Studios to Moe's meeting at a coffee shop at that intersection, all the tales pay homage to the storied Hollywood street corner."

Reissued in paperbook and Kindle formats in 2015 by publisher Perfect Crime Books.  (Refreshing the page will alternate the editions pictured.)


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