Ep 179 is loose and we're heading to the bright lights of Tinseltown to find out what happened to silent film director William Desmond Taylor?

Who would want this famous director dead? Who was hiding secrets? And should we all hire cake-based assistants?

The secret ingredient is...Hollywood!

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Sources this week include Silent Era, WilliamDesmondTaylor.co, Medium, History.com, Irish Central, A Deed of Death by Robert Giroux, The Guardian, and archive interviews with Mary Miles Minter

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