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The Count and the Confession: A True Murder Mystery
by John Taylor
from Vintage

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Confession is bad for your future
  This is not a typical true crime book, and I say that as someone who loves the genre. Where the true crime greats are interested in what creates a murderer and the circumstances that lead to murder, John Taylor in interested in what leads to a confession. A confession that may or may not be accurate.
  Certainly there is ample empiric data to support the notion that innocent people do confess to crimes they didn't commit. But if the question "can it happen" can be answered, that doesn't mean that we are... more info

• I know!
  This is not a tidy who-done-it with a crafted end, but a belabored "apology" in the old sense of the word, making excuses for someone to convince an audience of a particular biased position. It is, sad to say, a very slanted account which discredits anyone who disagrees with Ms Monroe's "official" story and presents her as a helpless victim. I'm not sure if that misrepresentation of objective truth is more shocking, or that it is simply not literary. As a novel, it has no plot, no character development, no... more info

• Brings Fact to Cliche "Truth is Stranger than Ficton"
  
  An highly entertaing read with more twists and turns than most novelists can deliver.
  A skilled true crime writer can take the mundane and make it interesting through dramatic writing. But this is a case of a naturally fascinating crime (or was it a crime?) and subsequent court proceedings.
  Fascinating charachters and a very interesting story.

• Did she or didn't she?
  Did southern lady, mild-mannered and genteel Beverly Monroe, murder her lover, wealthy art collector and scientist Roger De la Burde? John Taylor's account leaves the question open. In fact, you are given a website when you can register your own verdict on the matter.

  Long-time journalist Taylor has given us a workmanship write-up of this intriguing case. Beverly is characterized in depth, as is De la Burde, and his pregnant Polish mistress, and even Beverly's two daughters and son. One idea he expresses... more info

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