num_pages: 342
description: This singular book follows a mad, tumultuous landscape without remorse or pity, the high and low life of Hollywood/LA. Gilmore obsesses on a relentless panorama of sex, violence and death in five new chronicles of So Cal *the sex-and-drug soaked Wonderland murders featuring porn legend John Holmes*Sexpot Starlet Barbara Payton's hellbent descent into the gutters of Tinseltown*the Hollywood Hooker who landed in San Quentin's gas chamber, the Ice Blonde Murderess Barbara GrahamFor those already steeped in the canon of John Gilmore's work, this is the long-awaited true-crime capstone to a celebrated collection of works, a blood-and-semen-soaked noir trail of all-night diners, nightclubs and cheap motels.
language: English
title: L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times
titlecomplete: L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times
genres: Film, Crime, Nonfiction, True Crime, History
ratings_count: 157
publisher: Amok Books