By John Gilmore
Legendary noir writer John Gilmore takes the reader on a mad, tumultuous all-night force with no regret or pity, during the low and high lifetime of Hollywood and the town of Angels. this is often the true-crime capstone to a celebrated selection of works, a blood-and-semen-soaked noir path of all-night diners, nightclubs and inexpensive hotels. Gilmore promises a continuing landscape of intercourse, violence and demise 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 superstar Sexpot to the gutters of Heartbreak and Vine.
• From beautiful jailbait sundown street hooker to San Quentin's gasoline chamber—the saga of the notorious "Ice Blonde" murderess Barbara Graham.
• street hitchhike-killer Billy cook dinner unleashes his remorseless hate for the entire human race in one...
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A boy of God's house,” he was called—despite his lapses into fantasy even while reading the Scriptures. ” He told an Army friend, Charles Douglas, the reason his dick was so long was he'd pulled the “hell” out of it most of growing up. When his mother divorced the senior Holmes, she moved the family into a low-rent building in Columbus, Ohio, sharing the apartment with another divorced woman and two additional kids. John was eight when Mary remarried again, this time to an employee of the telephone company.
Holmes tried to step aside, to hang back, but one of the men, a hulking black giant, prodded him between the shoulders with the end of a pipe. He was shoved ahead as the men rushed forward, pushing into the house as if catapulted across the threshold. Clenching his eyes, John turned away, every nerve pulling like a piece of wire. He wanted to crawl into a hole—a dirty drain and be sucked to kingdom come. The awful sounds of the pipes and bat filled the air, and the girl who'd answered the door was on the floor.
The Starwood, a rock ‘n'roll circus, averaged twenty-five drug busts a month. Sometimes one a day, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration officer. He estimated Nash's drug traffic as out of control. “He distributes drugs practically free. You get counterfeit ludes, pot, cocaine for the asking. A grab bag … A giveaway. 's office, Eddie remained a private citizen running his legal empire of strips joints, gay bars, and rock clubs. The law couldn't touch him. And even when they tried, certain problems came up face to face with them, like you were barred from busting Nash.
