“Beverly Hills Noir is that perfect blend: wildly entertaining, fascinating, and informative. What a fun ride. I highly recommend it! Enjoy!”
Beverly Hills Noir
Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210
Description
Featured In Vanity Fair
Beverly Hills Noir explores the city’s true crime history, delving deep inside cases that made headlines, scandals that engulfed Hollywood legends, and more strange-but-true tales that could only happen in the 90210.
Beverly Hills Noir chronicles an assortment of jaw-dropping true crime stories spanning the legendary city’s history, each with oh-so-90210 twists—including a high-profile murder mystery in the city’s most extravagant mansion, the daring exploits of a handsome cat burglar with movie star looks, a toxic Tinseltown love triangle that ended in gunplay, a brazen Rodeo Drive jewelry store holdup with tragically stunning finale, an Oscar nominated actress on shoplifting spree and more—complete with major roles and countless cameos by Hollywood idols and cultural icons.
A gripping, century-long tour of the glamorous city’s shadowy underbelly through crimes and misdemeanors as over-the-top as the city itself, Beverly Hills Noir collects the kinds of stories you’d expect to be swapped if James Ellroy and Dominick Dunne had met Jackie Collins and Ryan Murphy for cocktails at the Polo Lounge. It’s Sunset Boulevard and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood turned sordid, face-down-in-the-pool reality.
Reviews
“Scott Huver is the ultimate tour guide in ritzy, smoky old Hollywood and 90210. You don’t need a time machine; you just need this delicious, scandalous collection of stories.”
“Exacting, entertaining, and enlightening, Beverly Hills Noir presents detailed accounts of legendary mysteries and scandals that are so outrageous they've got to be true. Scott Huver captures the tone and cadence of the movie genre that gives his book its title, and he's capable of achieving a level of suspense on par with the last ten minutes of Sorry, Wrong Number. He approaches his subjects with a documentarian’s attention to research and a historian’s devotion to facts, sculpting into high relief the tinsel and tarnish of the rich, the beautiful and the frequently immoral.”
“Scott Huver chronicles true crime in such detail that it’s hard to believe you were not the room as some of most notorious criminals wreaked havoc on the world’s most expensive zip code. Each chapter of Beverly Hills Noir is its own crime thriller told in vivid technicolor.”