Books by Andy Edmonds and Complete Book Reviews

Bugsy's Baby: The Secret Life of Mob Queen Virginia Hill

Andy Edmonds, Author Carol Publishing Corporation $19.95 (260p) ISBN 978-1-55972-164-6

Edmonds ( Hot Toddy ) here focuses on one of the more notorious women of mid-century America, who was brought to prominence by the Kefauver Senate crime hearings of 1951-1952. Born into grinding poverty in Alabama, Hill discovered as a teenager that

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Hot Toddy: The True Story of Hollywood's Most Sensational Murder

Andy Edmonds, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-688-08061-7

Thelma Todd, a Massachusetts beauty who became one of Hollywood's most successful comediennes in the late '20s and early '30s, died mysteriously in 1935 at the height of her popularity. She worked with stars like the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy...

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Frame-Up!: The Untold Story of Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle

Andy Edmonds, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-688-09129-3

Edmonds ( Hot Toddy ) here adds a sympathetic, if sensationalized and poorly written account to the many published versions of the escapades of Arbuckle, comic star of silent movies who in 1921 gave a party in a San Francisco hotel that was to cost...

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