FROM THE PUBLISHER A Genius for Murder: A Play in Three Acts is a
dramatization of 1940s Hollywood Noir. The play is a Hollywood
Confidential, based on real people and real events taken from the
actual newspapers, secret police files, recorded transcripts and
courtroom documents of that day. It centers on a five-year timeline
(1945-1950) in the life of Dr. George Hill Hodel, then Head
Venereal Disease Control Officer for the Los Angeles Health
Department and a "prime suspect" in a series of LA Lone Woman
Murders the most infamous being the 1947 torture-surgical-murder of
twenty-two-year-old, Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short, Did George
Hodel actually commit these sadistic murders? Or, because of his
skill as a surgeon, was he just rounded up as "one of the usual
suspects?" As a member of the seated jury, you will be asked to
weigh the evidence, and then vote your mind at the close of Act
III. George Hodel, an LA born native, was a sophisticate and bon
vivant extraordinaire. Possessed of a high-genius IQ he was a
member of Hollywood's inner-circle of the rich and famous. His
personal friends were an eclectic group of actors, artists, and
writers who make up the play's cast. We meet and party with
George's beautiful wife, Dorero, a screenwriter, recently divorced
from George's longtime friend, famed film-director John Huston. We
are introduced to George's inner-circle of avant garde intimates
such as the surreal photographer, Man Ray and his wife and muse,
Juliet. We drink and philosophize with writer and fellow Dadaist,
Henry Miller, along with George's confidant, the mysterious German
Baron, Ernst von Harringa. In the 1940s, George Hodel was the
A-List doctor to Hollywood's A-List stars as well as LA's downtown
politicos and high-ranking officers on both the Los Angeles Police
and Sheriff's Departments. As owner of the First Street VD Clinic,
Dr. Hodel was the go-to-guy for "a girl with a problem" and was
known and recognized inside the police department as a "High
Jingo," one who is well connected, and a man not to be messed with.
The play, as a historical drama, takes us back to relive and
rediscover the noir-underbelly of Los Angeles, as a-City of Angles.
Corrupt police and politics ruled the day. City Hall was surrounded
by Machiavellian princes all with their long knives drawn. Nothing
was as it appeared. Throughout it all, one highly intelligent and
powerful man knew the city's secrets and "how everything fit
together" and that knowledge made him extremely dangerous. It also
made him UNTOUCHABLE. This Play in Three Acts is based on that time
and that man. A man who unquestionably had-A GENIUS FOR MURDER. The
play was written by Steve Hodel, the son of Dr. George Hill Hodel.
Steve is a retired LAPD homicide detective and the New York Times
bestselling author of Black Dahlia Avenger. (HarperCollins
2006-Skyhorse e-book 2012) His true-crime book became an
international bestseller as well as being nominated for an Edgar
Award by the Mystery Writers of America in the Best Fact category.
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