Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; The Cases; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
A companion volume to the author's Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases (2002), this reference work chronicles 298 cases of what can be broadly defined as "celebrity" homicides from the early twentieth century onward. Cases are drawn from the realms of film, theatre, music, dance and other entertainment fields. In each instance, the person was either the actual or suspected perpetrator or victim of a murder. Included are individual entries on such well-known personalities as film comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, actress Shar
