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Dominick Dunne

    October 29, 1925 – August 26, 2009

    Dominick Dunne was an American writer and investigative journalist whose work often focused on the intersection of high society and the judicial system. After a career in Hollywood as a producer and television personality, he turned to writing, producing incisive explorations of the lives of the wealthy and famous. His narratives delved into the darker aspects of their world, revealing the often-hidden machinations beneath glittering surfaces. A profound personal tragedy later steered his focus toward the complexities of legal proceedings and the pursuit of justice.

    Too Much Money
    An Inconvenient Woman
    Another City, Not My Own
    If I Did It
    People Like Us
    The Way We Lived Then
    • 2010

      Too Much Money

      A Novel

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. When he falls for a fake story and implicates a powerful congressman in some rather nasty business on a radio program, Gus becomes embroiled in a slander suit. The stress makes it difficult for him to focus on his next novel, which is based on the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. The convicted murderer is behind bars, but Gus is not convinced that justice was served. There are too many unanswered questions, and Konstantin’s hot-tempered widow will do anything to conceal the truth. Featuring favorite characters and the affluent world Dunne first introduced in People Like Us, Too Much Money is a mischievous, compulsively readable tale by the most brilliant society chronicler of our time—the man who knew all the secrets and wasn’t afraid to share them.

      Too Much Money
    • 2007

      The extraordinary testimony of OJ Simpson about the murder of his wife Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman that became an Oscar-winning Netflix series.

      If I Did It
    • 2000

      The definitive book of its kind, Vanity Fair's Hollywood is an incomparable collection of classic photographs, essays and caricatures depicting a century of Hollywood power, glamour, myth and mystery - directly from the pages of Vanity Fair, from 1914 to today. The brightest stars in Hollywood's firmament have been assembled in one volume: Garbo and Swanson, Gable and Grant, Tracy and Hepburn, Fairbanks and Pickford, Taylor and Burton - along with today's cinematic giants: Cruise and Kidman, Nicholson and Streep, De Niro and DiCaprio, Hanks and Roberts, and scores more. Vanity Fair's photographers - among them Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen and Bruce Weber - have helped to define modern portraiture. Likewise, Vanity Fair's stable of Hollywood writers in this volume includes luminaries of the past (P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy Parker and D.H. Lawrence) and of the present (Christopher Hitchens, Dominick Dunne, Amy Fine). Here, then, is a century's worth of stars and moguls, parties and scandals, power and glamour, through the unrivalled lens and the inimitable prose of Vanity Fair.

      Vanity Fair's Hollywood: Forew. by Graydon Carter. Afterw. by Dominick Dunne.
    • 1999
    • 1997

      Gus Bailey, journalist to high society, knows the sordid secrets of the very rich. Now he turns his penetrating gaze to a courtroom in Los Angeles, witnessing the trial of the century unfold before his startled eyes. As the infamous case and characters begin to take shape, and a range of celebrities from Frank Sinatra to Heidi Fleiss share their own theories of the crime, Bailey bears witness to the ultimate perversion of principle and the most amazing gossip machine in Hollywood--all wrapped in a marvelous addictive true-to-life tale of love, rage, and ruin. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

      Another City, Not My Own
    • 1996
    • 1994

      The Winners

      • 378 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Mona Berg knows she will never be a Hollywood star, but she is determined to achieve power in other ways, and prepares for battle in the world of glamour, power and sex. Dominick Dunne is the author of "People Like Us", which was highly successful in both Britain and America.

      The Winners
    • 1993

      Pauline et Jules Mendelson vivent dans la société la plus huppée de Los Angeles. Leurs réceptions sont célèbres, leurs œuvres d'art enviées. Ils sont ce ceux que la richesse, les relations, le pouvoir politique et financier protègent. Alors, invulnérables ? Ils l'ont cru. En dépit des journalistes trop curieux et des petits malfrats à la solde des gros. En dépit de quelques sales affaires, tout près d'eux... Les mœurs et la corruption d'un milieu que l'auteur connaît bien - il fut durant vingt-cinq ans producteur de cinéma et de télévision à Hollywood - et où sa fille, actrice, fut assassinée en 1982.

      Livre de Poche: Une femme encombrante - Texte intégral
    • 1991

      Der Selbstmord eines Freundes sorgt im Hause des Milliardärs Mendelson in Hollywood für Aufregung. Um grösseren Schaden von seiner Familie abzuwenden, verschleiert Mendelson die wahren Hintergründe

      Eine unbequeme Frau
    • 1990

      An Inconvenient Woman

      • 482 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      3.6(52)Add rating

      Jules Mendelson is wealthy. Astronomically so. He and his wife lead the kind of charity-giving, art-filled, high-society life for which each has been carefully groomed. Until Jules falls in love with Flo March, a beautiful actress/waitress. What Flo discovers about the superrich is not a pretty sight. And in the end, she wants no more than what she was promised. But when Flo begins to share the true story of her life among the Mendelsons, not everyone is in a listening mood. And some cold shoulders have very sharp edges. ... --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

      An Inconvenient Woman