Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: not mad, just disappointed
the true crime that's worth your time
The crime(s)
The 1982 murder of Dunne's daughter, Dominique, which led directly to Dunne's longtime tenure at Vanity Fair – but also all the cases and trials he covered for the mag that made Dunne a household name.
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The story
Dunne's son, actor/director Griffin, has a memoir hitting next month, so I treated myself (theoretically) with a more impartial, longitudinal study of his father's life, 2017's Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts. The forceful and concise title: promising! The author, Robert Hofler, a theater critic and Hollywood biographer: I looooved his Allan Carr bio, Party Animals, and gave it to at least half a dozen friends that holiday season, so, also promising!
