Jay Margolis

I have what I call a 'sickness' where I must finish a book that I start, no matter how bad the book may end up being. Well, every rule has an exception and in this case, the exception is this book. I made it through a little over 40 pages and even that was a struggle. Try as I may, I just couldn't read any more.

This book is like a poorly written conspiracy theory blog that was allowed to go for far too long. I'm not even sure what the authors' point is because they talk in circles around show more everything, presenting what they claim is startling new evidence, but much of that seems to undermine their own theories. Their overarching theory seems to be a Kennedy-based murder is responsible for Monroe's untimely death, but they seem to go back and forth with their 'evidence' as to whether Bobby Kennedy murdered Monroe himself or someone(s) did it for him, although he was complicit in the cover-up either way. Other people (namely, Anthony Summers) have done a better job floating this theory and writing about it in a readable way.

Incidentally, early on in the book, the authors refer to Joe DiMaggio as Monroe's "white knight," even though DiMaggio was abusive to Monroe during their marriage. Even if the book had been written better and presented a more coherent theory of Monroe's supposed murder, the authors still lost credibility with that statement right there. I highly recommend you stay away from reading this book; there are so many more interesting books about Monroe out there -- ones that celebrate her life and not just a bizarre fixation with her death. show less

I'm all for a good conspiracy theory and I have never been convinced that Marilyn committed suicide BUT this book, while presenting a reasonable idea of what might have happened, is a disjointed, repetitive and somewhat boring account of Marilyn's last hours. To save anyone else from having to read this atrocious book - the theory is that Bobby Kennedy ordered Marilyn's death, that it happened at the hands of her psychiatrist Dr Greenson (a lethal injection of Nembutal) and that Bobby's show more brother-in-law Peter Lawford was a key figure in covering it all up. There is little actual evidence presented in this book - it is mainly conjecture and 'best guessing' - very unimpressive stuff! show less

This book goes into extreme detail of every possible event during time of her death. Although initially this seems very indepth, there are times it becomes over powering to justify an argument. What this book brings is that it shows there are alot of people who have jumped on the bandwaggon fior a buck or limelight even it means making things up, this is not the authors fault but it does make the final argument unconvincing.