Who Killed Sal Mineo? — Susan Braudy

A New York journalist is pulled into the drama of Hollywood as she investigates the life and death of actor Sal Mineo in this historical fiction by Susan Braudy.In the carport of his West Hollywood apartment, American actor Sal Mineo was stabbed in the heart by a mugger who fled the scene, presumably acting under homosexual motivation. As she searches to fill in the gaps of his life and murder, Sara Martin, a New York journalist, is drawn into the glittering, highly charged homosexual milieu of Hollywood in this based-on-fact novel.