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A NOVEL BY DAVID GARBER
Hollywood, 1927. The talkies are coming. The silence is about to die — and so are people who know too much.
It is an era of dazzling glamour and deep corruption — and no one knows both sides of it better than Wyatt Earp.
Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp is 78 years old and fighting his greatest battle—time. Working for film directors like John Ford, the man who was once America’s most celebrated marshal now spends his days as a technical advisor on Westerns… a living shadow of what he used to be.
Every staged shootout is a reminder of how far the real thing has receded into myth— until his 13-year-old neighbor, Dean Carlisle, knocks on the door of his home. Dean’s mother was found murdered, the investigation buried by corrupt cops. The boy pleads with Earp. He has no one to turn to. He offers the legendary lawman everything he’s got to find his mother’s killer—four coins totaling 32 cents and his yo-yo.
What begins as an unlikely contract between a fading icon and a grieving child pulls Wyatt into the darkest corridors of the film industry — where Sam Warner’s revolutionary Vitaphone sound system is a pawn in a high-stakes financial conspiracy. Here, the line between studio politics and cold-blooded murder runs straight through the boardrooms of men like Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
With the future of Hollywood hanging in the balance, Wyatt finds himself pitted against Vera Krasova — a woman of lethal beauty and volcanic ambition who makes the outlaws of the Old West look like gentlemen.
Four Coins, a Yo-Yo, and a Gun is a historical mystery-noir of the first order: richly researched, propulsively plotted, and anchored by an unlikely detective duo.
An old lawman who has nothing left to prove. A boy with everything left to lose. And a killer who’s been hiding in plain sight since the first reel.
Perfect for fans of James Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe mysteries — and readers who love their history with a loaded chamber.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bestselling author David Garber has spent a lifetime in Hollywood — writing it, teaching it, and now mining its darkest corners for fiction. His memoir, Hollywood Huckster: A Memoir of Hysterical Proportions, reached #1 on Amazon's Biography & Memoir list. His new historical mystery-noir, Four Coins, a Yo-Yo, and a Gun, is his third book and his second to plunge into the Hollywood he knows better than most — the real one, behind the glamour.
Garber spent more than three decades as a writer, producer, and showrunner, amassing over 100 produced scripts across some of television's most beloved series. His credits include The Fall Guy, Saved by the Bell, Love Boat, Alien Nation, 227, Sweet Valley High, and the Power Rangers franchise. His theatrical feature work includes Dennis the Menace for Disney and the Sweet Valley High feature for Saban Films. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, and has been recognized with a Prism Award for outstanding writing and a TV Critics Award for Special of the Year.
Since 2013, he has taught screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television — bringing the same hard-won insider perspective to the classroom that animates his fiction.
Away from the page, Garber is an avid disc golfer and lifelong Boston sports fan. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Hava, and their two adult children — just a few miles from the backlots where his career began and his stories now live.
To reach the author: Email: DavidGarber@LinzackPublishing.com
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