John Gilmore - On the Run with Bonnie & Clyde

John Gilmore delivers his ultimate, relentless panorama of sex, violence and death in five raw chronicles of SoCal sickness:

Porn legend John Holmes and untouchable Hollywood crime lord and drug impresario Eddie Nash the unvarnished story of the sex-and-coke-laced Wonderland murders

King of Western Swing and early LA TVs singing cowboy phenomenon Spade Cooley walking the line of nightmare, depravity and murder

Hollywoods fallen angel Barbara Payton seemingly hell-bent to descend from Movie Star Sexpot to the gutters and dumpsters of real-life Tinsel Town

From gorgeous Hollywood hooker to San Quentins gas chamber, the infamous Ice Blonde murderous Barbara Graham

Highway Hitchhike-Killer Billy Cook unleashing his cold-blooded hate for the human race

John Gilmore is the best nonfiction writer of our time, the type of writer that grabs by the throat and by the heart. - Maximum RocknRoll

ISBN 1-878923-16-1 (trade paper)

$19.95, 344 pp., illustrated

Acclaimed as a powerful chronicler of the American Nightmare through his gripping examinations of near-mythic Southern California murders (the Black Dahlia, Tate-LaBianca), author John Gilmore draws upon his own resevoir of personal experiences as he turns his sights on our morbid obsession with Celebrity and the ruinous price it exacts from those who would pursue. With caustic clarity and 20-20 hindsight, John Gilmore recounts his relationships with the likes of James Dean, Janis Joplin, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, Jean Seberg, Lenny Bruce and many other denizens of the twentieth centurys dubious pantheon both on the way up and at the peaks of their notoriety.

Beautifully written in a style somewhere between Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski... This is an astonishing book. - Sight and Sound

John Gilmore deals with mythically familiar subjects, but not to turn them inside out. Instead he boils off the myth and shows you how things really were, and what things felt like to the people living what later became a myth. You will encounter no received ideas, no cliches, no deference to popular myths and opinions, and best of all, no lies. Hes an amazing writer, and Laid Bare is his most astonishing book. - Gary Indiana

ISBN: 1-878923-08-0 (trade paper)

$16.95, 250 pp., illustrated

Random murder and savage overkill, mind control and trips, Satanism and witchcraft, cursed glamour, Haight Ashbury, rocknroll, biker gangs, sexual rebellion & dune buggies tearing across Death Valley in search of the hole in the earth...

The persona of Charles Manson and his bizarre sway over the Family remain riveting a quarter of a century down the line. At the time of the killings, Charles Manson was instantly demonized by the media. Today he has become an icon of rebellion the spirit of annihilation. Manson is a gripping and chilling acccount of one of the most fascinating crime sagas of our time, now available in a revised and updated edition containing 36 pages of previously unpublished photos. New vectors into the kaleidoscopic tale which spins inexorably out of the slayings emerge in this updated edition with new material on killer Bobby Beausoleil and his occult alliance with experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger.

Fascinating! - Library Journal

A well-researched ethnography of the Manson Family more than an investigation of their crimes. - Chicago Reader

A psychogeographical history of Manson and his family... Charlie considered him [Gilmore] a suitable medium for his messianic message. - Dazed and Confused

ISBN: 1-878923-13-7 (trade paper)

$15.95, 208 pp., illustrated

The Black Dahlia murder hit post-war Los Angeles like a bombshell... An impenetrable mysterythe haunting crown jewel of LAPDs unsolved murders. Even before her savage death, beautiful 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet and nightclub habitu, was known as the Black Dahlianow a magnetic icon in American pop culture, an almost mythical symbol of Hollywood noir. In this expanded edition John Gilmore plumbs the dark core of this terrifying story that, he argues, can never be truly solved. Heres the real Elizabeth Shortthe enigmatic Black Dahlia.

The most satisfying and disturbing conclusion to the Black Dahlia case. After reading Severed, I feel as if I truly know Elizabeth Short and her killer. - David Lynch

The best book on the Black Dahlia in fact, the only reliable book. - Colin Wilson

This project stands as the only authentic true-crime book written on Americas most bizarre and haunting murder case. - Charles Higham

ISBN: 1-878923-17-X (trade paper)

$17.95, 238 pp., illustrated

Hollywood Boulevard

Inside Marilyn Monroe

Crazy Streak

L.A. Despair

Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia

The Garbage People

Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives &
the Hollywood Death Trip

Fetish Blonde

Live Fast - Die Young: Remembering the Short Life of James Dean

The Tucson Murders

The Real James Dean

Cold-Blooded: The Saga of Charles Schmid

Manson: The Unholy Trail of Charlie & the Family

Copyright 2013 by John Gilmore
Amok Books edition, 2013

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Cover design by Ross Goza
Book design by Carson Gilmore
Copy editing by Nikki Bazar
Published by Amok Books
Los Angeles, California

First Edition

Bibliographic Information for Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gilmore, John, 1935
On the run with Bonnie & Clyde
by John Gilmore

ISBN-10: 1878923226
ISBN-13: 978-187892226

1. Parker, Bonnie, 1910-1934. 2. Barrow, Clyde, 1909-1934.
2. True Crime-American History-Americana. 3. Criminals-Texas-Dallas
Biography/Creative Nonfiction.
4. Depressions-1929-1934-United States. I. Title.

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