But to pawn off an O.J. Simpson rehash as a novel is a nasty publishing trick. Moreover, it sullies the already murky line between what is fact and what is fiction in books today. Another City, Not My Own does feature the name Augustus Bailey, not Dominick Dunne's. And Bailey has a different fate from Dunne. But come on.
Novels draw on some element of imagination.
This is the journal of a society diarist attending the O.J. Simpson trial. His young daughter was strangled by her abusive cook boyfriend, who received a very light sentence. Like Dunne, Bailey is a friend and confidant of the very rich and the very famous. Apparently, Dunne became the ultimate dinner guest among the celebrity set because he would do a little floor show about the trial. By the end of the book, what one really wants to know is how Dunne managed to eat out so often and still get up to appear on those early morning TV shows.