By John Gilmore
ISBN-10: 1617505196
ISBN-13: 9781617505195
Legendary noir writer John Gilmore takes the reader on a mad, tumultuous all-night force with out regret or pity, in the course of the low and high lifetime of Hollywood and the town of Angels. this is often the true-crime capstone to a celebrated choice of works, a blood-and-semen-soaked noir path of all-night diners, nightclubs and inexpensive hotels. Gilmore gives you a continuing landscape of intercourse, violence and dying in 5 uncooked chronicles of SoCal sickness:
• Porn legend John Holmes and untouchable los angeles crime and drug impresario Eddie Nash—the unvarnished tale of the sex-and-coke-laced Wonderland murders.
• Hollywood's fallen angel Barbara Payton—hell-bent on descending from celeb Sexpot to the gutters of Heartbreak and Vine.
• From lovely jailbait sundown street hooker to San Quentin's fuel chamber—the saga of the notorious "Ice Blonde" murderess Barbara Graham.
• road hitchhike-killer Billy prepare dinner unleashes his remorseless hate for the complete human race in one...
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He hadn't had any contact like that even in those spots in Germany where it wasn't hard to get laid since the sauerkraut chicks were practically giving it away. John was polite to prostitutes, I mean courteous and almost apologetic, and they didn't know what to make of it. I also never heard him talk dirty about girls or like he was on the make. He never wanted to hear dirty jokes … He'd read. He'd read the Bible while other guys were getting drunk. ” Again contrary to real life, John would later brag that his stay in Germany was spent mostly in a bordello.
You still singin’? Thought we'd put you to sleep–” The girl made garbled sounds and feebly raised a hand to shield her cracked head. Another blow of the pipe struck so hard it severed half a finger from her hand. Blood flew against the wall as though thrown from a bucket. ” one man asked. ” They were looking at Holmes, so drained that he looked like a ghost. “Get what we came for and let's split,” the black man told the others as Holmes slunked toward the front door, his squinting eyes looking straight ahead.
He was one of the biggest headaches to law enforcement, and what started as something questionable in the city had quickly spread into a deep, entrenched criminal organization. His holdings were becoming monumental and his operation was like an octopus getting into every dirty corner of the city. A chunk of every dollar made on drugs and whores and gambling found its way into Eddie's pocket. He had liquor licenses up the kazoo. Thirty-six at last count. Extensive real estate and back-pocket assets LAPD's organized crime people were estimating around thirty million.