Book Signing with CASEY SHERMAN, author of A Murder in Hollywood
Schedule
Sat Apr 27 2024 at 04:00 pm
Location
PO Box 399, 2568 White Mountain Highway (Route 16), North Conway, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03860 | North Conway, NH
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We're happy to have Casey Sherman back - his presentations are always fascinating - to talk about his new book, A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime. From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all―a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato, thug for the infamous west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen, her personal life became violent and unpredictable. Lana's teenage daughter, Cheryl, watched her beloved mother's life deteriorate as Stompanato's intense jealousy took over. Eventually, the physical and emotional abuse became too much to bear, and Lana attempted to break it off with Johnny―with disastrous consequences. The details of what happened that fateful night remain foggy, but it ended in a series of frantic phone calls and Stompanato dead on Lana's bedroom floor, with Cheryl claiming to have plunged a knife into his abdomen in an attempt to protect her mother. The subsequent murder trial made for the biggest headlines of the year, its drama eclipsing every Hollywood movie.
New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman pulls back Tinseltown's velvet curtain to reveal the dark underbelly of celebrity, rife with toxic masculinity and casual violence against women, and tells the story of Lana Turner and her daughter, who finally stood up to the abuse that plagued their family for years. A Murder in Hollywood transports us back to the golden age of film and illuminates one of the 20th century's most notorious true crime tales.
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PO Box 399, 2568 White Mountain Highway (Route 16), North Conway, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03860Event Location & Nearby Stays:
