Fatal Charms And Other Tales Of Today

Author : Dominick Dunne
Publisher : Crown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307815026

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Fatal Charms by Dominick Dunne Pdf

Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers--and the people who pretend to be. Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bülow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man . . . what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president . . . why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob . . . and, in Dunne's most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter's life was brutally destroyed. Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets--and now those secrets are out.

Author : Dominick Dunne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : OCLC:1280863137

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Fatal Charms and Other Tales of Today by Dominick Dunne Pdf

Author : Dominick Dunne
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345430595

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Fatal Charms and The Mansions of Limbo by Dominick Dunne Pdf

Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty--and now his two provocative collections of Vanity Fair portraits are in one irresistible volume. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers--and the people who pretend to be. Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bülow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man . . . what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president . . . why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob . . . and, in Dunne's most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter's life was brutally destroyed. Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets--and now those secrets are out.

Author : Howard Engel
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781504031486

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Crimes of Passion by Howard Engel Pdf

Thirty real-life accounts of passion gone lethally wrong Celebrated mystery writer Howard Engel traces the history of the crime of passion through France, England, Canada, and the United States in his first nonfiction book. The story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England, is explored along with more familiar, modern cases, such as those of O. J. Simpson and Lorena Bobbitt. With each sordid tale, Engel explores the legal codes and moral implications surrounding crimes of passion throughout history. Careful research and a novelist’s eye for detail and dramatization bring each grisly case into chilling clarity. Crimes of Passion is a must-read for true crime enthusiasts, armchair historians, and fans of the macabre.

Author : E.J. Fleming
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786482658

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Carole Landis by E.J. Fleming Pdf

Before she was a glamorous actress, before she was a war-time pin-up star, even before she was Carole Landis, she was Frances Lillian Ridste, an insecure young girl from Wisconsin. She was strikingly beautiful, talented, and on her way to becoming a movie star, yet she spent her entire life searching for love. Though she appeared in more than 60 films during her short career, Landis was better known for her extraordinary beauty and many romantic relationships than for her acting or comedic timing. Like many starlets of the time, Landis worked her way up from uncredited bit parts (and according to rumors, from the casting couch) to leading roles in such films as Topper Returns (1940) and My Gal Sal (1942) over the course of her 11-year career. She spent more time visiting troops during World War II—traveling hundreds of thousands of miles and coming near death twice—than any other Hollywood star. Despite her seemingly glamorous and carefree life, Landis was unable to build a lasting relationship, a fact that contributed to her suicide at 29. This work examines Landis’s life and career in Hollywood, focusing on how her movie career affected her short, unhappy life.

Author : Michael Gross
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780767932653

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Unreal Estate by Michael Gross Pdf

A history of lucrative real estate in Los Angeles shares the lesser-known contributions of a range of figures from Douglas Fairbanks and Marilyn Monroe to Howard Hughes and Ronald Reagan. By the best-selling author of Rogues' Gallery.

Author : John E. Bartimole
Publisher : Frederick Fell Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0883910101

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Irish Heroes and Heroines of America by John E. Bartimole Pdf

America's 40 million Irish-and all those in search of role models-will enjoy John Bartimole's collection of inspiring and amazing stories and profiles of 150 war heroes, doctors, scientists, educators, artists, athletes, businessmen and leaders featured in this tribute to great Irish-Americans. They include John F. Kennedy, Lucille Ball, Rosie O'Donnell, Babe Ruth, John Wayne, Henry Ford, Jimmy Breslin, and many more. There are very few books on Irish heroes. The competitive titles listed above have to do with myths and folklore, and the other is a story of average citizens that contributed to the civilization of Ireland and it's culture.

Author : Rachel Trethewey
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750990196

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Before Wallis by Rachel Trethewey Pdf

Wallis Simpson is known as the woman who stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy – but she was not Edward VIII's first or only love. This book is about the women he adored before Wallis dominated his life. There was Rosemary Leveson-Gower, the girl he wanted to marry and who would have been the perfect match for a future king; and the Prince's long-term mistress, Freda Dudley Ward, who exerted a pull almost equal to Wallis over her lover, but abided by the rules of the game and never expected to marry him. Then there was Thelma Furness, his twice-married American lover, who enjoyed a domestic life with him, but realised it could not last forever and demanded nothing more than to be his mistress – and fatefully introduced him to Wallis. In each love affair, Edward behaved like a cross between a little boy lost and a spoilt child craving affection, resorting to emotional blackmail to keep his lovers with him. Each of the three women in this book could have changed the course of history. By examining their lives and impact on the heir to the throne, we question whether he ever really wanted to be king.

Author : Robert Hariman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780817306984

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Popular Trials by Robert Hariman Pdf

This critical study of seven popular trials illustrates the interaction of the law and the mass media. The seven are the 17th century trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, and the 20th century trials of Scopes, the Chicago Seven, the Catonsville Nine, John Hinckley, Claus von Bulow, and San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alice Kimberly,Cleo Coyle
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425199444

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The Ghost and the Dead Deb by Alice Kimberly,Cleo Coyle Pdf

When a visiting author is murdered, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghostly companion must spook out the devious killer in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly. The only rule bookshop owner and widow Penelope Thornton-McClure has given ghostly hard boiled P.I. Jack Shepard is to not haunt the customers. But when hot, young author Angel Stark arrives at the store to promote her latest, a true crime novel, Jack can hardly contain himself. After all, this is his specialty! Angel’s book is an unsolved mystery about a debutante found strangled to death. And it’s filled with juicy details that point a finger at a number of people in the deb’s high society circle. But when the author winds up dead too—in precisely the same way—Pen is fast on the case...which means Jack is too. After all, a ghost detective never rests in peace.

Author : S. L. Alexander
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576079805

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Media and American Courts by S. L. Alexander Pdf

A unique reference work exploring the interaction of ever more pervasive media and the U.S. judicial system in the 20th century. At a time when two-thirds of local news is crime- or court-related, when Court TV broadcasts daily, and when one lurid case can push all other news aside, Media and American Courts: A Reference Handbook offers a much-needed examination of how the press and the judicial system interact. Despite the benefits (a better-informed public, judicial accountability), has expanded coverage of the courts in fact weakened our democracy? Media and American Courts approaches this question by exploring the cases, the personalities, and the controversies that have redefined the court/press relationship in the past century as the media expanded from print and radio to courtroom cameras, cable, and the World Wide Web. It also includes suggestions from legal and media experts for making court news more accurate, informative, and useful.

Author : Anne McCracken,Mary Semel
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1568385560

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A Broken Heart Still Beats by Anne McCracken,Mary Semel Pdf

A Broken Heart Still Beats Softcover

Author : George Parker Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119464324

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American Mystery and Detective Writers by George Parker Anderson Pdf

Essays on authors whose lives span the twentieth century and serve as examples in the complex evolution of an immensely popular genre that has been greatly affected by market forces. Their careers and works reveal changing perspectives on crime and punishment in American society and culture.

Author : Lyndsy Spence
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750969659

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The Mistress of Mayfair by Lyndsy Spence Pdf

The plot could have been inspired by Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, but unlike Waugh's novel – which parodies the era of the ‘Bright Young Things’ – The Mistress of Mayfair is a real-life story of scandal, greed, corruption and promiscuity at the heart of 1920s and ’30s high society, focusing on the wily, willful socialite Doris Delevingne and her doomed relationship with the gossip columnist Valentine Browne, Viscount Castlerosse. Marrying each other in pursuit of the finer things in life, their unlikely union was tempestuous from the off, rocked by affairs (with a whole host of society figures, including Cecil Beaton, Diana Mitford and Winston Churchill, amongst others) on both sides, and degenerated into one of London’s bitterest, and most talked about, divorce battles. In this compelling new book, Lyndsy Spence follows the rise and fall of their relationship, exploring their decadent society lives in revelatory detail and offering new insight into some of the mid twentieth century’s most prominent figures.

Author : E.J. Fleming
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786496440

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Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites by E.J. Fleming Pdf

For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino's grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the "O.J. murders" condo, the hotel where John Belushi overdosed, a myriad of haunted mansions. In its extensively researched and enlarged second edition, this book tells the stories of these locations and makes finding them simple. Seventeen driving tours include more than 650 sites. Each tour covers a specific area, from Hollywood and the Sunset Strip to Brentwood and Malibu, covering the entire Los Angeles basin. Concise, easy-to-follow directions are given to each location with 145 photos and the fascinating story behind each stop.