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Morbid Curiosity: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous

The death of Michael Jackson continues to dominate worldwide news. We've always been fascinated by celebrities...and death. Who among us doesn’t recall exactly where they were and what they were feeling when the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Elvis, and Princess Diana were announced?

Coming out just in time for the Halloween season are the strange, startling and utterly fascinating stories behind the world’s most notorious celebrity deaths in MORBID CURIOSITY: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous (Perigee Trade Paperback) by celebrity journalist Alan W. Petrucelli. From historical figures like Attila the Hun and Sir Walter Raleigh to contemporary names like Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith, the deaths of the rich and famous provoke endless speculation and tabloid fodder.

MORBID CURIOSITY will answer these burning questions:

Was Jayne Mansfield really decapitated?
Which manly appendage of Napoleon’s was cut off during his autopsy? (And where did it go?)
What went to the grave (literally) with River Phoenix, Frank Sinatra and Princess Diana?
Why was Judy Garland kept in cold storage for more than a year after her death?
Whose suicide note was titled “Football Season Is Over”?
What were the last words of John Wilkes Booth, Liberace, Joan Crawford, James Brown, and others?
Noted celebrity journalist Alan W. Petrucelli has covered many of the world’s most famous people — right up to the end, for some. Now, in MORBID CURIOSITY he presents the most unsettling, unexpected, occasionally humorous, and often outright appalling details of the final moments of the famous and notorious.

Noted celebrity journalist Alan W. Petrucelli has covered some of the world's most famous people - some right until their deaths. Alan W. Petrucelli wrote his first celebrity obituary as a college senior. He has been an editor at US Weekly, Redbook, First for Women, and Working Mother. In MORBID CURIOSITY: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous, he presents the most disturbing, unexpected, occasionally humorous, and often outright appalling details of the final exits of the rich and powerful.

“Morbid Curiosity is a cornucopia of Hollywood gossip and tidbits, much more humorous than macabre, delivered from a different point of view than any book I’ve read about celebs. It’s breezy, pithy, informative, odd and, despite it’s subject matter, certain to amuse.”
— Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies

“Alan has written a very funny, very clever book—it’s shocking and sinful and I couldn't put it down. He leaves no gravestone unturned, nothing buried. Morbid Curiosity is part Six Feet Under, part Mad magazine. It’ll make a killing!”
— Joan Rivers

“Even celebrities eventually die, and they do so in far more rivetingly grand-scale ways than mere mortals. Now that they've met their maker, they've also found their chronicler. Alan W. Petrucelli unearths the demises of the rich and famous—from Valentino to Heath Ledger and beyond—with detailed research, dishy wit and insight. This book is to die for!”
— Michael Musto

“I couldn’t put the book down until I finished every word. Morbid Curiosity is a terrific read for those who have to know every little detail about the famous and infamous. Some great stories to be told at the dinner table. Can’t wait to give my next dinner party!”
— Rona Barrett

MORBID CURIOSITY: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous is currently available from bookstores everywhere.