In 2003 there was an attempted auction of many postcards belonging to Edward F. Snyder (Edward Sands) when he was in the U.S. Navy. Details and a photo of the collection is at http://www.cowanauctions.com/past_sales_view_item.asp?ItemId=7364.
A nice Taylorology mirror has been added to the Silent Era website.
The 1984 novel The Dorothy Parker Murder Case by George Baxt is set in New York in 1926 but the William Desmond Taylor murder is an important subplot. This is an excellent book, and hopefully someday there will be a similar novelization centering on the Taylor case.
The 1931 Maigret novel A Man's Head contains several references to the Taylor case, and refers to the article by Ed. King which was reprinted in Taylorology 50.
Capt. Edward A. Salisbury, who was featured in Taylorology 75, can be seen on DVD in the film "Gow the Killer". The highlight of the film is the reenacted head-hunting raid described in the article "A Napoleon of The Solomons".
Taylorology 98 is now available.
Life has published "The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of All Time", containing a brief one-page recap of the Taylor case.
Fallen Angels, A Blackwood McCabe Hollywood Mystery by Dominic Lagan is a recently-published novel which centers on the William Desmond Taylor case.
Famous Players: The Mysterious Death of William Desmond Taylor, by Rick Geary, is a nicely-done graphic novel of the Taylor murder.
The online USC Digital Library has a page which includes a 1937 photo of Taylor's coat, worn when he was shot.
The fascinating blog of "Aimesley Jordan, Genealogy Detective" is online at http://aimesley.blogspot.com with genealogical information regarding people close to the William Desmond Taylor case. Amazing tidbits so far include a photograph of Julia Crawford Ivers, and information that Hazel Gillon had lived at 404-B S. Alvarado.
A 1971 interview with silent film actress Claire Windsor is available online at http://www.thephotoplayer.com/clairewindsor1971.mp3 , in which she discusses the impact of the Taylor case on her life and career. (Her discussion of the case begins five minutes into the interview.)
Two previously-unavailable films with lesser-known actresses linked to Taylor have been released on DVD. "Sand," a 1920 western starring William S. Hart, has been released on DVD by Unknown Video. Patricia Palmer (Margaret Gibson) has a supporting role in "Sand"; she is only on-screen for about 3 minutes, and has no close ups. "The Voice from the Sky" is a 1930 sound serial starring Neva Gerber (credited as Jean Delores). "SerialFest DVD Magazine No. 1," contains the audio dialogue sequences (without visual footage) from Chapter 1 of the serial. A few of Neva Gerber's silent films have been available on home video, but this is the first time her voice can be heard. Other monthly issues of the SerialFest DVD Magazine contain the audio from other episodes of "The Voice from the Sky."
The Fame Formula, by Mark Borkowski, is a non-scholarly history of Hollywood's publicity agents. A portion of the book tells of a seemingly-fictional publicist who claims to have been "summoned" on the morning that William Desmond Taylor was found dead, and that the publicist was "right at the heart" of the murder.
Robert Giroux, author of A Deed of Death, died on September 5, 2008, at the age of 94.
The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr is a recently-published novel which has the William Desmond Taylor case as the key plot element of the book.
Film director Kimberly Peirce spent several years preparing to make a movie on the William Desmond Taylor case, to star Annette Bening, Hugh Jackman, Ben Kingsley and Evan Rachel Wood. The movie was not made, but Peirce hopes to return to the project some day. In an interview she stated
- ...We solved the murder mystery. We figured out who did it, how they did it, and how and why it had to be covered up.
The interview below seems to indicate Peirce has concluded that Mary Miles Minter was guilty.
