The Secret of Mary Miles Minter's Mother

About the Book

The Secret of Mary Miles Minter’s Mother is about the mysterious murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor back in 1922 and how David and Elizabeth Williams, a multimillionaire brother and sister who happened to live on their magnificent estate of Tarnhelm near Hollywood, actually solved it. Traveling to Egypt, they join an archeological dig at Abu Simbel, where they are threatened with imminent death for a murder they never committed. They partake of some mysterious "Atlantis Tea" (which produces a rather unexpected and humorous side effect), and in the process learn the truth concerning Atlantis, as well as the true origins of Egypt, its gods and goddesses, and the Illuminati. Then they travel back to Hollywood, where they begin to unravel the mystery of William Desmond Taylor’s murder by having a very unique interview with silent film star Mary Miles Minter. They throw a toga party to end all toga parties at their mansion, partake in a secret Midnight grave robbery in a Hollywood cemetery, and engage in some "ghostly sleuthing" through secret passageways beneath a film set in the California desert. They rescue a "live mummy" and finally become involved in an ancient Egyptian temple ceremony to (literally) raise the dead! In the process, our hero and heroine finally get to the bottom of this seemingly unsolvable mystery once and for all, and with the help of silent film friends like Cecil B. DeMille, bring the true perpetrators to justice with some incredibly hilarious results!

About the Author

Brad Back received a degree in Speech Communications with an emphasis in Radio, TV and Film from Moorhead State University in 1984. He also took Speech 280 (Film History) as well as a number of Speech 499 level classes on the subject of film history, and in the process fell deeply in love with the time period of Silent Film History, which lasted from 1908 to 1928 in Hollywood. He wrote a 2,000-page chronological timeline of silent film history for his Advanced Cinema Studies class in 1982, and has since been both an avid reader and researcher on the subject. He has also written other David Williams mysteries, as well as a book which he believes tells the truth concerning the Kennedy assassination. The David Williams mystery series takes place in the Hollywood of the 1920s and brings this time period to life as only the eccentric David and Elizabeth Williams can!