The Day the Laughter Stopped: The True Story of Fatty Arbuckle

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket has several short tears and some associated creasing at the top and bottom edges of the front panel and a tiny chip at the bottom edge, dog-earing along the top edge of the rear panel, and is slightly faded along the spine]. (B&W photographs, endpaper illus.) A well-researched examination of the myth-shrouded Roscoe Arbuckle murder-rape case, this was the first book to bring any kind of historical rigor to bear on that tragic episode. Includes a detailed filmography (compiled by Samuel A. Gill) and an extensive bibliography. .