Murder in Babylon

"Druxman has taken Hollywood's most famous murder mystery and turned it
into a fascinating narrative that is so evocative of 1920's Tinseltown.
His fictional "hero" guides us on a factual journey that not only reveals
why the case remains officially unsolved-but also identifies the killer!"

- Thomas B. Sawyer, Murder, She Wrote Head Writer/Showrunner, bestselling author of Cross Purposes
On the evening of February 1, 1922, silent film director William Desmond
Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles home. The murder, coming on
the heels of the "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal, shocked the Hollywood community
and the country, resulting in reform groups labeling the film capital a
"modern day Babylon," and demanding that movies be censored or, in some
communities, even banned.
The murder itself was never "officially" solved, but subsequent
revelations about the director's unsavory past, as well as his recent
secret activities that took him into the Los Angeles underworld, would
keep the case alive in the nation's press for almost two decades, and
because of their relationship with Taylor, effectively end the careers of
two popular screen stars, Mabel Normand and Mary Miles Minter.
Ben Birnbaum, a reporter for the Los Angeles Dispatch at the time of the
murder, covered the Taylor case for those two decades; once almost being
killed for his efforts. His posthumous memoir details his day-to-day
investigation to unravel Hollywood's most baffling mystery.