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Friday, October 05, 2007

Dominick Dunne

If you're a true crime aficionado,
ever followed a high profile trial,
especially celebrity trials, you might be
familiar with Dominick Dunne.

Dominick Dunne writes for Vanity Fair
and has written both fiction and non-fiction
books. I've read "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles,
A Season in Purgatory, An Inconvenient Woman"
and I enjoy his writing style.

Justice
Crimes, Trials and Punishments, which
is a compilation of nine trials which
Dominick Dunne has attended or written about.

The first chapter in the book is about Dominique
Dunne, Dominick's beloved daughter, and the
trial of her killer John Sweeney. He documents
the travesty of the trial, the mockery of
justice that occurred.

Among the trials in the book are those of
Claus Von Bulow, the Menendez brothers,Lyle
and Erik, Marvin Pancoast (murderer of Vickie
Morgan,former mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale)
and of course, Dunne's experiences during the trial
of Orenthal James Simpson for the murders of Ron
Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.

Dunne provides a behind the scenes
look at commentary both by strangers and
those connected to, or on the periphery of
the trials. Dominick's wry and forthright
style and unapologetic attitude towards
those who kill make this book (and others)
a fascinating read.

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