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The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower (Berkley True Crime) Mass Market Paperback – Illustrated, February 1, 2011

by Robert Graysmith (Author)

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Marli Renfro was Janet Leigh's body double in the Hitchcock classic Psycho. When she disappeared, it was believed she was the victim of a serial killer. It was a mystery that took decades to solve-and a crime that could only have happened in Hollywood.

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352 pages
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English
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Berkley
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February 1, 2011
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4.22 x 0.9 x 6.75 inches
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0425239756
ISBN-13

978-0425239759
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Robert Graysmith is the New York Times bestselling author of several true crime novels including Zodiac, Zodiac Unmasked, Auto Focus, and Amerithrax. The major motion pictures Zodiac and Auto Focus are based on his books. A San Francisco Chronicle political cartoonist and artist for fifteen years, he lives in San Francisco.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley; Illustrated edition (February 1, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0425239756
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0425239759
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.22 x 0.9 x 6.75 inches

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The cover page is misleading!

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2020

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The publishers have it right. This book is all about Marli Renfro, "the girl in Alfred Hitchcock's shower". But the cover had to insert something else kind of misleading: "A murder that became a real-life mystery. A mystery that became an obsession." Well, not quite. Only in the ten page Chapter 37 do we find the LAURA type scenario where the central character, Marli, is pronounced murdered then is discovered in fact to be alive and well, happily living out her days in the desert. Most of this book is indeed about Marli's life as an exceptional model which at times is interesting but not gripping like one would expect out of a book largely promoting itself as a true crime narrative. I am giving this book a higher rating than other reviewers because even though it did not live up to my initial expectations, there was plenty in here I found absorbing such as the intricate work that went into the production of the shower scene in PSYCHO and reading of the true crime case of Sonny Busch in Los Angeles in the same period, a case I was unaware of. As is the case in other Graysmith books, he is to be commended as a very talented descriptive writer.. I also have to empathize with his life of fixating on every possible corner of old murder cases and the characters in them. I have done this too to the annoyance of some of my friends who wish I would get another hobby. But some things you just can't let go of, These characters from these cases end up in your nightmares. If you stare at these people's pictures long enough, I have found, eventually their lookalikes arrive, however irrational this may sound, and what unusual trouble they can cause!

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Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2021

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Kind of an oddly written book. It's supposedly about Marli Renfro but also goes into the filming of Psycho (makes sense) and the Sonny Boy murders. The Sonny Boy murders could have been it's own book and it got to the point where I stopped reading those chapters. The Psycho part was interesting but the same information was constantly repeated. As for Marli, she definitely lives an interesting life but the book would have been better if it was in chronological order instead of starting with Psycho, going to her childhood, back to Psycho and then going into more of her pre-Hitchcock life.
Might be a better read if it was structured better.

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Dave

Interesting start; lackluster finish for unrelated stories

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2010

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Interesting title; interesting premise; and what seems to be a very well-researched mystery book...I was hooked! Throw in Alfred Hitchcock and I was a goner for this one, even though some of the reviews seemed a little unenthused. The book is mainly about Marli Renfro, a young girl whose big claim to fame is that she was the body double for Janet Leigh in Psycho 's shower sequence. If you don't see Janet's face...well, that's Marli. A parallel story is detailed about Sonny Busch, a Norman Bates-like man with a seemingly domineering mother and a passion for strangling older ladies. As I read these fascinating tales, I kept waiting for the parallel paths to converge; strangely enough, they don't. Author Robert Graysmith, known for writing Zodiac , takes many detailed tangents...stories about Francis Ford Coppola, early Las Vegas, the town of Searchlight, and early nudie films. Again, I kept waiting for all of these tangents to tie together at the end, and disappointingly enough, they don't. Billed as a murder-mystery in the style of the famous noir movie Laura , the long-winded explanations of the book fizzle into a short ending that is extremely lackluster. Instead of this rambling tale, Graysmith should have written a number of short stories rather than trying to tie all of these unrelated vignettes together into one book. Although the stories of filming the shower sequence in "Psycho" are very interesting, I have a feeling there are other books that detail the same information. Probably best to check this out at a library rather than purchase it...you might be disappointed like I was. As a footnote, the details of Graysmith's obsession for Renfro and his collection of clippings of her nude magazine layouts seems just this side of creepy.

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Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2022

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Product arrived earlier than expected and in mint condition. Highly satisfied.

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2016

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Excellent!!! I love Hitchcock, and the background of this book, which drops names of famous people. I love Mr. Graysmith!!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2014

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I really loved this book

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2016

I really loved this book. It offered me all the most fascinating bits from cinema history, true crime, and offered a window into a different way of thinking.

This was just top notch for pushing all of the buttons of my interests.

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Richard Taylor

I love the book The Girl In Alfred Hitchcocks Shower.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2020

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Have started to read the book it's very interesting. I know the lady who was the shower scene double for Janet Leigh in the 1960 Psycho shower scene. We chat online. I love the film and find it interesting to learn about the making and behind the scenes etc. A great film and a nice book. Thank you.