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Name: Murder at San Simeon
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Author: Hearst, Patricia
ISBN: 9781476717692

by Patricia Hearst

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Entwining past and present in a gripping novel, Patricia Hearst and Cordelia Frances Biddle unravel a real-life, decades-old mystery that has become Hollywood lore. Featured in "A Pocket Full of Crime" mystery newsletter.

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After a startling truth is revealed in her mother's last words, Catha Kinsolving Burke finds herself swept into the extravagant world of the legendary Hearst castle, San Simeon, as she tries to fill in the gaps of the real-life mysterious death of seventy-year-old Hollywood producer Thomas Ince.

During the carefree years after World War I and the Great Depression, Hollywood and California's Gold Coast became a mecca for the world's greatest stars. Taking the lavish lifestyle of the Roaring Twenties for all it was worth, Newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst built a castle, known as San Simeon, by the sea for his Hollywood mistress, Marion Davis.

For years, San Simeon was the playground for the rich and famous, until the mysterious death of Hollywood producer Thomas Ince aboard Hearst's luxury steam yacht put an end to the whimsical and worriless party lifestyle at the castle. Even Heart's own newspapers could not prevent the coverage of the night that detailed the illegal drunken behavior, sexual excesses, and jealous rage that led up to the supposed murder of Ince at San Simeon.

After her mother's deathbed words send her into a world of false accusations and the mysteries of the Roaring Twenties, Catha Kinsolving Burke, an associate professor of history at Occidental College, sets off to investigate the death of Thomas Ince and uncover the true story of what happened that night at San Simeon in this thrilling mystery based on true events.

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Title Murder at San Simeon
Author Patricia Hearst
Binding Paperback
Pages 288
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Scribner Book Company
Publication date 2012-09
Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian
ISBN 9781476717692 / 1476717699
Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, California, Southern
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Patricia Hearst is an American author and actress, and granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. She first became known for the events following her 1974 kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. She is the author of Patty Hearst: Her Own Story, Every Secret Thing, and Murder at San Simeon, based on an actual unsolved murder.

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