{"product_id":"9780316580519","title":"The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe","description":"\u003cb\u003eHer rise, her triumph, her tragic loss—only James Patterson can tell the full story of America's tragedy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the early hours of Sunday, August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe’s live-in housekeeper wakes with a sinking feeling. She knocks loudly at her employer’s locked bedroom door, and when there is no answer, she calls Monroe’s psychiatrist, Ralph Greenson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            Greenson breaks into Monroe’s bedroom and finds a horrifying scene: the thirty-six-year-old movie star lying naked, lifeless, face down on her bed, still clutching the telephone receiver.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            At 4:20 a.m., Greenson alerts the LAPD. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is established protocol for the chief medical examiner to conduct celebrity autopsies, but inexplicably, junior medical examiner Dr. Thomas Noguchi performs the procedure on the five-four, 118-pound actress. \u003ci\u003eWhen you are a coroner\u003c\/i\u003e, Noguchi believes, \u003ci\u003eyou start from the assumption that every body you examine might be a murder victim\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e ​\u003cbr\u003e In those final summer days, did Marilyn Monroe have more enemies than friends?","brand":"James Patterson, Imogen Edwards-Jones","offers":[{"title":"Little, Brown and Company |  Hardback  |  2025-12-01","offer_id":46308096999679,"sku":"9780316580519","price":42.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI-2026-02-03T122349.841.jpg?v=1770139455","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780316580519","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}