Kirkpatrick and was rechronicled in “A Deed of Death” (1990) by publishing lion Robert Giroux. The Taylor case got paperback treatment in “A Cast of Killers” (1986) by Sidney D. The case, despite being anchored in a kind of Hollywood prehistory, remains a fascination, in part because it, combined with the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, brought censorship to Hollywood. It is revisited in Nina Revoyr’s new novel, “The Age of Dreaming.” The links between her characters and the historical figures are clear - her Ashley Bennett Tyler is William Desmond Taylor, Nora Minton Niles is movie star Mary Miles Minter, and so on.
These are the stories told about the notorious murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor his 1922 death remains unsolved. Studio thugs trying to cover up the details of a life that turned out, to everyone’s surprise, to have largely been an invention. Three actresses linked to him romantically - one by a monogrammed silk nightie she’d left in his closet.
A director, shot dead in his own apartment.
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