The Marilyn Tapes

In writing this novel, the following books were used as principal reference material:

J. Edgar Hoover, The Man and the Secrets. Curt Gentry. Norton, 1991

Inside Hoovers FBI. Neil J. Welch and David W. Marston, Doubleday, 1984

With Kennedy. Pierre Salinger. Doubleday, 1966

Little Man, Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life. Robert Lacey. Little Brown, 1991

My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy. Evelyn Lincoln. David McKay, 1965

Kennedy and Johnson. Evelyn Lincoln. Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1968

The Texas Connection. Craig I. Zirbel. Warner Books, 1991

Goddess, The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Anthony Summers. MacMillan, 1986

Norma Jean, My Secret Life with Marilyn Monroe. Ted Jordan. William Morrow, 1989

The Marilyn Scandal. Sandra Shevey. William Morrow, 1988

Donovan of Oss. Corey Ford. Little Brown, 1970

City of Nets. Otto Freidrich. Harper and Row, 1986

Marilyn and Me. Susan Strasberg. Warner Books, 1992

Hedda and Louella. George Eels. Putnam, 1972

The Secret and Confidential Life of /. Edgar Hoover. Anthony Summers. Putnam, 1992

Life with Rose Kennedy. Barbara Gibson. Warner Books, 1986

Architectural Digest Celebrity Homes. Viking Press, 1977

J. Edgar Hoover: The Man in His Time. Ralph de Toledano. Arlington House, 1973

The Kennedy Years. Viking Press-The New York Times, 1964

Marilyn’s Men. Jane Ellen Wayne. St. Martin’s Press, 1992

Marilyn: Her Life from A to Z. Randall Riese and Neal Hitchens. Corydon, Weed, 1987

Marilyn: Norma Jean. Text by Gloria Steinem, photographs by George Barris. Henry Holt, 1986

I would also like to acknowledge the work of Sue Grover, who spent many hours in the Los Angeles Public Library finding information on the L.A. of the early sixties; the staff of the Cedar Rapids Public Library, who put up with months of my daily requests; Don Cole, who helped me will details of l950s Omaha; Natalie Kleis of the Cedar Rapids Fire Department, who helped me understand burns and the process of suffocation; Dr. Tracy Knight, for his help with all the psychiatric portions of this book; Matthew Bialer for one supremely important suggestion; and my wonderful wife Carol, whose suggestions and encouragement kept me going through the ten months of writing.