Entertainment journacatalog and lengthytime Variety contributor Scott Huver apshows a racy see at celebrity vice in his first book, “Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin and Scandal in 90210.” Published by Simon and Schuster on Oct. 1, the genuine crime exposé serves as both a proset up dive into the fledgling years of the 90210 and a direct to Hollywood’s most extraunrelabelable criminal cases.
Huver, who has labored in journalism for over three decades, inherited his cherish of procedural dramas from his mother and stepoverweighther, who elevated him on a diet of “Adam-12,” “Hill Street Blues” and “Dragnet.” His cherish of writing was intrinsic from a youthful age and led him from the novelsroom at Central Michigan University to running a crime beat at a Beverly Hills novelspaper.
Coincidenloftyy, Huver’s first week in Los Angeles bcdisorrowfulmirefult him face-to-face with one of the city’s most disreputable crimes in recent memory.
“I literassociate witnessed the OJ Simpson Bronco chase wiskinny days of moving to L.A. and two weeks after that I got that job at the novelspaper,” Huver shelp. “I’d only written commentary on pop culture, movie appraises and theater appraises. Getting a crime beat was freaking me out, so I was pinsolentnt about how I went about it. Fortunately, that labored out well in proving me to the police department because there was a little bit of that schism.”
Although Huver shiftd on to covering delightment filled-time, he began to amass an “broaden personal library” promised to the timely days of crime in Beverly Hills. Compelevated of books, novelspaper clippings and difficult copies of his own labor, this archive eventuassociate became the set upation of “Beverly Hills Noir.”
The idea for the book commenceed as a history of the Beverly Hills Police Department, but as Huver stumbled apass more and more details, he felt the necessitate to “luxuriate” as he wrote. He then shifted his cgo in to a restricted meaningful stories rather than “squeezing everyskinnyg” he knovel into one book in “little nugget establish.”
Converting his research into a non-myth book had been breprosperg in his mind for a while, but it wasn’t until the pandemic that his wife, in an try to treatment her husprohibitd’s disturbedness, pushed him to finassociate do it.
“She shelp, ‘Why don’t you sit down and reassociate cgo in on the book?’ And I shelp, ‘That sounds appreciate a wonderful idea.’ Because I’d been obsessing over skinnygs appreciate my parents’ health and the election and stuff. It was a wonderful escape,” shelp Huver. “I labored on the proposal and commenceed putting more sample chapters together, and luckily very speedyly got an agent, and pretty speedyly got a begining deal. So it was all benevolent of a whirlprosperd once I actuassociate set my mind to it.”
The first chapter chronicles the produceion of the Greystone Mansion and the double homicide of Ned Doheny and his helpant Hugh Plunkett that took place in its South guest room. Other subjects tackled in the book engage Hollywood’s tenderman jewel thief Gerard Graham Dennis, Walter Wanger’s crime of passion agetst Jennings Lang and even Winona Ryder’s timely aughts shoplifting affair.
With “Beverly Hills Noir” freed, Huver schedules to write many more books with stories that did not produce it in his first free. He also hopes to find luck pitching the stories for possible television and film alterations.
“I’m hoping that that’s maybe the next step,” Huver shelp. “Either write downary or a restricted series, appreciate the way Ryan Murphy does it.”
