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Daddy’s Girl: The Campbell Murder Case: A True Tale of Vengeance, Betrayal, and Texas Justice (1988)

by Clifford Irving

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In 1982, a successful lawyer and his wife were found brutally shot to death in their own bed. From an investigative reporter comes the shocking story of one of Texas's most complex murders--the story of a tortured and bitter woman driven to kill her own parents. of photos.
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Writer's Bias & Ego Kill What Good Story Is Here

Clifford Irving continues to be his own worst enemy. Not quite able to live down his infamous Howard Hughes hoax, Irving has to work very hard to re-gain his audience's trust. Might I suggest commenting on what should be a reportage of facts, centering himself smack-dab at the core of his tale, writing adolescent and churlish descriptions of women he deems not proportioned correctly-- that is fat, would not be the way to accomplish that.
When Irving can move himself out of his way, we can see why readers buy his books. Some of the writing is smooth, powerful, and unsustainable.
And this tale is nothing short of Southern Gothic.
However, even at the Kindle low price of 2.99 it is simply not worth the effort.
And what is up with the use of the * as in s*x-i kid you not. That and the ice replaced with an apostrophe in the F word. When was this published? On top of everything else this was extremely distracting. And, yeah full-time.
I kept wondering what Queen Ann would have done with this material.
Skip it. ( )
  leighpod | Sep 12, 2015 |
I got thru most of this book. I love to read books about older crimes that were published before social networking and Google and all that! But this book bored me! I kept expecting something shocking to happen, but it was just dragging on and on, and I felt the author was very opinionated and not in a good way. Very curious to know where they all are today though. ( )
  briannad84 | Apr 26, 2012 |
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