Devil's Garden by Ace Atkins
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson series comes a noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history.San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel-girls, jazz, bootleg hooch...and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe.
The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed her--crushed her under his weight--and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearst's newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict.
In desperation, Arbuckle's defense team hires an operative from the famed Pinkerton detective agency to investigate and, they hope, discover the truth. The agent's name is Dashiell Hammett... and what he discovers will change American legal history--and his own life--forever
Ace Atkins is the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson series, the first two of which were nominated for Edgar Awards for Best Novel (he also has a third Edgar nomination for his short story, Last Good Deal Gone Down). He is also the author of numerous New York Times bestseller novels in the Robert B. Parker series. The Spenser series by Parker. He worked as a correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before turning to fiction. In college, he was a defensive end for the undefeated Auburn University football team (for which he was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated) and a crime reporter for the Tampa Tribune. He is a resident of Oxford, Mississippi.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780425232668 |
| ISBN 10 | 0425232662 |
| Title | Devil's Garden |
| Author | Ace Atkins |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2010-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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