David Kizer's Page

Dear Mr Kizer - I've been trying to track you down for some time and hope that this circuitous route will eventually get me to you!

I have so enjoyed reading your painstaking research on the Fatty Arbuckle trials, a subject that has long held a fascination for me. I felt your book got so close to the pain of the great man and exposed so brilliantly the unscrupulous behaviour of his aggressors, that I felt fully transported into the very court room itself.

Having read David Yallop’s account - indeed having spoken at length with him on the matter - and also Andy Edmonds, The Untold Story and several other versions of the trials, I found your book to be the one that moved me the most, as you wrote it from the heart rather than a cold list of facts.

Sadly a lot of people still believe Rosco to be a rapist and a murderer through Anger’s account in Hollywood Babylon and that is tragic. The man was a genius, a master of comedic inventiveness who influenced Chaplin and Keaton and so many other great comedians of the day.

I have an idea which has been brewing away inside of me for some time which I would like to discuss with you further.

Once again my congratulations on a terrific book and hope that I will be able to talk to you further on the subject.

All good wishes

Clive Francis