Jill Dando: Her Life and Death

Author - Brian Cathcart ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Penguin Books was reviewed on 16-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Jill Dando: Her Life and Death by Penguin Books. Jill Dando, it seemed had everything.

The queen of television´s prime time, she was trusted and loved by millions, while at thirty-seven she herself had finally found love. Then one bullet made her Britian´s most famous murder.

Itwas a crime that took the breath away: cruel but unfathomable. Serb terrorist, criminal hit man, jilted lover or plain madman - the evidence pointed to all, and none. And it raised disturbing questions. Was Dando the person she seemed? Had she in some way invited death? Is any clebrity safe?

In a fascinating study of fame and crime, Brian Cathcart charts Dando´s rise from gawky schoolgirl to household name and seeks the sources of her huge popularity. Then he dissects the murder, the intensive investigations it prompted and the evidence that led, two years on, to a sensational Old Bailey trial. As he demonstrates, there has never been a case like it.
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2) Paperback Book Jill Dando: Her Life and Death by Penguin Books. She was attractive, successful and, at the age of 37, about to marry the man she loved. Then, with a single bullet to the head, on her own doorstep, and in broad daylight, she became Britain´s most famous murder victim. The national shock that followed was a measure not only of the cruelty of the crime but also of her remarkable popularity. After ten years in national television, the woman who insisted her secret weapon was her ordinariness had created something extraordinary. The BBC´s golden girl was also the girl next door -familiar, trusted and liked by millions. Her murder remains unsolved and also scarcely believable. Brian Cathcart, author of "The Case of Stephen Lawrence" and "Were You Still Up for Portillo?", recounts Jill Dando´s development from gawky schoolgirl to glamorous celebrity. Drawing on her own words as well as the testimony of friends and colleagues, he seeks in her background and relationships the reasons for her powerful appeal, asking the key question: Was she what she seemed? He also examines in detail the clues left behind by the killer and the evidence assembled by one of Britain´s most exhaustive murder inquiries. What, for example, was the role of the sweating man at the bus stop? And how much does the bullet tell us? "Jill Dando: Her Life and Death" is a revealing look behind the public mask of celebrity and a thorough investigation into one of the most shocking murders of recent times.¤

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