Recommended reading - I Wake Up Screaming

I Wake Up Screaming

I Wake Up Screaming
by Steve Fisher.
 
Paperback.
Published by Vintage.
First published 1941.
ISBN 13: 9780679736776
ISBN 10: 0679736778
ASIN: 0679736778
 
Description:

The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s.
 

"She was as white as marble, but she looked lovely.  Her hair was splayed out in fine strands of gold, and her lips were bright, rich red, and there was a green eyeshadow on her eyelids.  You could see that because her eyes were closed and she was lying very still.  She was lying still and she wasn't breathing."

 

With its portraits of washed-up directors, jaded leading men, and a ruthless cop whose one-track mind leads straight to a cyanide pellet, I Wake Up Screaming is a magnificent thriller by a Hollywood insider whose screenplays included Lady in the Lake and I, Mobster.