The Girl from Hollywood Centennial Edition

Not quite a western. It takes place in the 1920s, but much of it is set in a western landscape and involves many of the tropes of westerns. The basic idea is that of a very fine western family whose lives become entangled with Hollywood types. Some of these are basically good and recover from their......more

Edgar Rice Burroughs is best known, of course, for his heroic and science fiction series such as John Carter of Mars, Pellucidar, and Tarzan but he also wrote a handful of contemporary novels. It’s tempting to classify “The Girl From Hollywood” as a historical novel because it takes place in 1922 du......more

When you read something by Edgar Rice Burroughs, even if it’s not Tarzan or science fiction, you know you’re in for a rough and tumble ride. Sex, Drugs, Bootlegging, Murder, Suicide, Prison–it’s all here, in 200 short pages. The plot centers on a Hollywood starlet trying to get away and make a new l......more

First serialized in Munsey's Magazine in 1922, "The Girl From Hollywood" was published in book form in 1923. And yes...this really is THE Edgar Rice Burroughs. What we have here is a crime novel set not just in Hollywood's film colony, but in the rural, agricultural San Fernando Valley of the 1920s.......more