Hollywoodland

The Scott Carson Saga, Book 3

By: Robert Crawford

Narrated by: Marnie L Sher

November 22, 1888. Young cameraman Scott Carson fires two shots. A body falls into the Thames, ending Buffalo Bill’s team’s battle with Jack the Ripper. The ship sails to New York, no one says a word about the killing, and everyone uneasily resumes their lives. Then, on New Year’s Eve, 1899, Carson sees a ghost from his past.

On the Brooklyn Bridge during a fireworks display, he photographs what is unmistakably Jack the Ripper. Terrified, he flees New York City, leaving all his family and friends behind. But the Ripper hasn’t forgotten Carson and his supposed treachery. And for the next 23 years, the infamous Whitechapel killer stalks Carson, slashing through any human obstacle standing in the way.

Against a spectacular historical backdrop, Hollywoodland tracks the Ripper’s progress through the concrete canyons of New York City, Buffalo Bill’s legendary Irma Hotel, the fabled dream factory of Thomas Ince’s Inceville on the Malibu coast, to the battlefields of World War I France, ending with a heart-stopping finale at, yes, the original sign that once read Hollywoodland.

©2021 Robert Crawford (P)2023 Robert Crawford

Redemption is Possible

Hollywoodland, the third book in the Scott Carson saga, is riveting and thrilling and satisfying. Robert Crawford is at his best in describing historical events with fiction thrown in to make the reader feel it is all real.

Scott Carson grows as a man, husband and father, but the antagonist Sarah evolves more than I thought was possible to restore one's faith in the human race.

To make this book even better is Marnie L. Sher's audio reading and interpretation of Crawford's words. Her careful verbal acting skills are masterful; she's fabulous.