An Inconvenient Woman

I liked this for the most part, but this portrayal of Los Angeles high society in its village-like atmosphere - everyone knows everyone and everything about everyone, was getting rather unbelievable in that there is only one coffee shop, one hair dresser, one flower person - but maybe that is the way it is with rich people. Probably written to account for Monroe's death conspiracies, although that gets mentioned only once. And I had the feeling that the writer had written himself into the book as potentially the only likable character.

Guilty pleasure. The super rich, and how they socialise. Dominic Dunne has a sharp ear for dialogue. Crammed with wonderful gossip and the unexpected connections between people.

Jules + Pauline Mendelson rick L.A. people - Flo his mistress - how lies + deceits all intertwine - good.

An Inconvenient Woman centers on the affair between married Jules Mendelson, an extremely influential member of Los Angeles high society, and Flo March, a diner waitress and aspiring actress whose life is transformed by the illicit relationship until she finds herself the inconvenient woman of the title.

A very delicious read - I highly recommend this one. Signed by Dominick Dunne at the Los Angeles County Court House by Dunne during the Phil Spectre trial - I was juror just down the hall on another case - not murder.

partially told from the viewpoint of Flo March, Jules Mendelsohn's mistress, but you also understand how his wife, the beautiful, organized, high-class wife Pauline. It was an ideal marriage, a great partnership, but Jules had always got his own way...

First edition good