February 3, 2020
Los Angeles
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Cover Design by Robert J. Sadler
“The Snake & Bake Murder—a TrueCrime story that will have you singing 1972s chart-topper “Brandy, You’re a Fine Girl” and reliving (even if you were never there) the swinging ‘free love’ sex scene in Tinseltown’s Hollywood Hills where a greedy, gruesome murder begins involving an absolute Beauty and several Beasts. Read, retired LAPD Homicide Detective III, Steve Hodel’s first-hand account of his Snake & Bake Murder investigation.”
“…For the next two hours, intermittently between tears and laughter, and four refills of coffee, Brandy Dawson told me her story. Working Hollyweird for the previous eight years, I thought I had heard it all. I was wrong! “
Det.III Steve Hodel
LAPD Hollywood Homicide (ret.)
(Excerpt from The Snake & Bake Murder)
BRANDY (You’re a Fine Girl)
by Looking Glass (1972)
The song reached No.1 on both Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100 charts
NOW AVAILABLE AS A STANDALONE TRUE CRIME SHORT STORY
Amazon Ebook Order HERE
SKH Note:
My “Snake and Bake Murder” short story, (an edited and abridged version) was originally published in Rare Bird Books (2016) paperback ed. an anthology of happenings in Los Angeles in the 1970s.: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine.
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