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The DD Group: An Online Investigation Into the Death of Marilyn Monroe |  | Author: David Marshall
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 901625
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 522
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0595345204
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780595345205
ASIN: 0595345204
Publication Date: March 16, 2005
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Product Description
From January through October 2003, a group of individuals engaged in an in-depth discussion of the death of one of the 20th century's most beloved figures, Marilyn Monroe. The result is The DD Group, the highly detailed work of author David Marshall. It chronicles Monroes final day and her tragic and puzzling demise. Using available information including police reports, vintage magazine and newspaper accounts, documentaries and biographies, and correspondence with some of the principals in the case, the group had one purposeto reconstruct the events of Monroe's last summer and reach an understanding of what likely took place on August 4, 1962. By verifying sources, considering agendas, and, above all else, applying logic, the DD Group was able to weed through the conflicting and often contradictory reports. Through careful research and study, they arrived at the most comprehensive understanding of the events surrounding Monroe's disturbing death.
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For The Serious MM-Phile October 25, 2009
Shatzi Crabtree (NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I couldn't put this book down. Anyone who is seriously interested and familiar with the stories surrounding Marilyn Monroe's death should buy this book. DD started as an online group to cut through the bull and false stories about MM's death and come up with what probably did happen.I won't spoil the ending, but any fan should have this on their shelf.
Great book! September 14, 2008
Jennifer H. Wallette (Georgia USA)
Great book. If you are interested in theories and thoughts of other Marilyn fans, this is the book to read.
 An Eye Opener July 20, 2008
Talking Fingers@aol.com (New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book made me re-examine my opinion as to the death of the great Marilyn Monroe. The book was so well researched (by so many), debated and documented. I actually changed my opinion as to the mode of her tragic demise because of it...I still don't believe that MM intended to commit suicide, which correlates to BOTH of the author's final speculations as to how she died, but I am swayed by the opinion that others were (innocently) responsible for her death, due to gross negligence. This negligence made it absolutely necessary to hide the real way MM died. (it saved careers)...Her Dr.'s. had an unknowing hand in her death, and even Mrs. Murray, which would fit in to why she said, "Why, oh why, after all these years, do I have to keep hiding this..." Marilyn did not intentionally commit suicide...That is my opinion after reading this excellent book. Your opinion may be different...That is what is so great about this novel...It leaves room for the reader to formulate their own opinion based upon the facts presented...Read and enjoy!
A wonderful, intelligent and compassionate insight August 27, 2007
Seoirse Ó. Dochartaigh
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Just finished the book this morning. Couldn't put it down since I purchased it a couple of days ago! I believe it has demystified so much here about Marilyn that it has to be very close to the last word on the subject. I took an interest in MM a few years ago and read many books on her. I was so impressed with her life that I wrote a three-act play called "Bye Bye Baby" about her last thee days. It hasn't been staged yet but one lives in hope! It was heavily biased by the Slatzer, Wolfe angle [murder] but since I read this book I'll have to re-write it removing this bias. After I read it I immediately went to Matthew Smith's Last Words to see if the DD Group's versions matched in any way. I believe, with a little bit of editing, it has second-guessed the Marilyn's tapes which weren't published at the time! It all makes sense now!!! However, although I really believed all along that she had been murdered, I now believe she did kill herself and that she made her mind up after RFK'S visit. It would seem that her whole world caved in then. When she asked Dr. Greenson "Did you take my Nembutal?" I think she was calling his bluff. She probably told him earlier that she only had one or two left and hid the 24 or 25. He may well have given her a shot of a small, controlled amount of Nembutal, with this knowledge in mind, when he returned, advising her to go to bed immediately. [I think most psychiatrists can and do give shots]. Remember that her total well-being depended almost entirely the esteem in which the Kennedys held her. If that was lost irretrievably, MM was lost. And it looked pretty final at 4.00 that Saturday. Dr. Greenson alone couldn't keep her from ending her life, even though he was indispensable to her in many ways. She was too intelligent for them all but must have made up her mind that afternoon.
MM must have felt lonelier that evening than any other time in her life and in that lonely bed in Brentwood she must have sobbed herself into that deep, deep sleep. I do believe now that she did say "Say goodbye to Jack..." to Peter Lawford. It's so, so tragic.
This book is a wonderful, intelligent and compassionate insight!!! I am forever in their debt.
Seoirse O Dochartaigh, Donegal, Ireland
another view ? January 30, 2007
Frederick L. Marfell
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I liked the format of this book, researcher sharing comments and formulating their opinions. Perhaps a better way of looking at what happened than individual writers have done. Worth a look see.
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