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San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy legend Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is tossing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel: young ladies, jazz, bootleg hooch . . . and a deceased actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed her – crushing her under his weight – and brings him through to manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearst’s newspaper publishers stir up the general public and demand a guilty verdict. But what really took place? Why do more and more people at the party seem to possess stories that discord? Why is the prosecution covering witnesses? Why are there body parts missing from the autopsied corpse? Why is Hearst so decided to see Arbuckle convicted? In desperation, Arbuckle’s protection team hires a Pinkerton agent to do a study of his own and, they expect, discover the fact. The agent’s name is Dashiell Hammett, the publication’s narrator. What he discovers will change American legal background – and his own life – forever.
