Show Business Homicides - An Encyclopedia, 1908-2009

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 the victim of a murder.
Included are entries on such well-known personalities as film comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, actress Sharon Tate, music producer Phil Spector, rap artist Notorious B.I.G., and superstar Michael Jackson. Each entry covers the crime, its legal disposition, and the subject's personal and professional background, comprehensively documented with notes and a separate bibliography.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Foreword by Jimmy McDonough     

Preface     

The Cases     

Appendix 1: Narcocorridos     

Appendix 2: Occupations     

Bibliography     

Index     

About the author

David K. Frasier is a reference librarian at the Lilly Library at Indiana University-Bloomington. He is the author of several books.

Product details

• Authors: David K. Frasier
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.02.2019
• EAN: 9781476676036
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-7603-6
• No. of pages: 420
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 753 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Music, Performing Arts, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, REFERENCE / Encyclopedias, PERFORMING ARTS / General, The arts, Films, cinema, Theatre Studies, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, General encyclopaedias