Characters from the darkest dramas of our era come to life in these ten real-life crimes which expose the gritty and shocking truth behind some of the murders that are still baffling the world's police forces. It reveals the facts about the killers who conspired to murder the President of the United States and got away scot free, the case of the world's richest man who was bludgeoned to death by a murderer who escaped under the eyes of the Duke of Windsor and how and why the story of Marilyn Monroe's last hours was rewritten to make her death look like suicide. This book received the "Byliners' Award" in America for the year's best non-fiction award.