just finished

• Not Just Evil: Murder, Hollywood, and California's First Insanity Plea, David Wilson // Stiff, overly grand prose; confusing zooms in and out from the titular case (the grisly murder of Marion Parker) and other headlines from 1927; a reference a submarine disaster that took place near "Providence Town," Massachusetts...it's not bad, but other readers suggested on Goodreads that Wilson also doesn't really stick the landing on his theory about Parker's killer's obsession with "the pictures," so I marked it DNF and moved on to the next.