Review: The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen, by Mark Shaw
I was a lot less impressed with Mark Shaw’s The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen than I wanted to be. Sadly, much of the book seems to be “pearl-clutching” rather than the solid reporting that Ms. Kilgalen herself espoused. That is not to say the book wasn’t interesting, but it just wasn’t a) enough, and b) what I expected it to be.
It did hold my attention, but I think it’s really only going to interest those who are into some of the conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination because it doesn’t really shed any light on Ms. Kilgallen’s actual career (at least there was very little there that I didn’t already know, so that may be a personal issue with the book). But if conspiracy theories are your thing, give it a try.
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