![]() ![]() I got a very old, used copy of a paperback from, so fragile that the pages kept crumbling as I turned them! The library doesn’t carry such old books, nor do bookstores. ![]() I wanted to see what constituted “shocking” in the 1920s. So I thought I’d better read the thing for myself. In the fourth book, which I am writing now, I mention the book itself. Because the second in my Roaring Twenties series SILENT MURDERS is set in the mid-Twenties in silent-movie Hollywood, I mention Rudy several times. It was a huge seller, but became even more so when it was made into a movie starring Rudolph Valentino in 1921, catapulting him to international fame. Hull (who probably needed to use initials to disguise the fact that she was a woman), published in 1919 in Britain and in 1921 in the U.S. ![]() This is the shockingly steamy and famous romance novel by the British author, Mrs. To entertain myself on a long train trip this week, I brought a copy of E. ![]()
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