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Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the latest chapter of the acclaimed FX series. On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot and killed on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. But months before Versace's murder, award-winning journalist Maureen Orth was already investigating a major story on Cunanan for Vanity Fair. Culled from interviews with more than four hundred people and insights gleaned from thousands of pages of police reports, Vulgar Favors tells the complete story of Andrew Cunanan, his unwitting victims, and the moneyed world in which they lived . . . and died. Orth reveals how Cunanan met Versace, and why police and the FBI repeatedly failed to catch him. Here is a gripping odyssey that races across America--from California's wealthy gay underworld to modest Midwestern homes of families mourning the loss of their sons to South Beach and its unapologetic decadence. Vulgar Favors is at once a masterwork of investigative journalism and a riveting account of a sociopath, his crimes, and the mysteries he left along the way. ""The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth's research are often staggering.""--The New York Times ""Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.""--Entertainment Weekly

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Breathless...a page-turner...Orth's exhaustive research and wealth of details make vulgar favors as hard to turn away from as a top-drawer horror movie....It will hook you from the first page and never let you go. --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> [An] exhaustive deconstruction of Andrew Cunanan's five murders...the breadth and thoroughness of Orth's research are often staggering. --<i>The New York Times</i> Fascinating... ripe with chilling detail...it paints a disturbing picture. --<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> A fascinatingly detailed account. --<i>USA Today</i> Orth tells this twisted story with grace and courage. --<i>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</i> Mesmerizing. --<i>Oakland Tribune</i> Fascinating. --Don Imus

Breathless...a page-turner...Orth's exhaustive research and wealth of details make vulgar favors as hard to turn away from as a top-drawer horror movie....It will hook you from the first page and never let you go. <br>-- San Francisco Chronicle <br><br> [An] exhaustive deconstruction of Andrew Cunanan's five murders...the breadth and thoroughness of Orth's research are often staggering. <br>-- The New York Times <br><br> Fascinating... ripe with chilling detail...it paints a disturbing picture. <br>-- Entertainment Weekly <br><br> A fascinatingly detailed account. <br>-- USA Today <br><br> Orth tells this twisted story with grace and courage. <br>-- Fort Worth Star-Telegram <br><br> Mesmerizing. <br>-- Oakland Tribune <br><br> Fascinating. <br>--Don Imus

Breathless...a page-turner...Orth's exhaustive research and wealth of details make vulgar favors as hard to turn away from as a top-drawer horror movie....It will hook you from the first page and never let you go. <br>-- San Francisco Chronicle <br> [An] exhaustive deconstruction of Andrew Cunanan's five murders...the breadth and thoroughness of Orth's research are often staggering. <br>-- The New York Times <br> Fascinating... ripe with chilling detail...it paints a disturbing picture. <br>-- Entertainment Weekly <br> A fascinatingly detailed account. <br>-- USA Today <br> Orth tells this twisted story with grace and courage. <br>-- Fort Worth Star-Telegram <br> Mesmerizing. <br>-- Oakland Tribune <br> Fascinating. <br>--Don Imus

[An] exhaustive deconstruction of Andrew Cunanan's five murders . . . The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth's research are often staggering. --The New York Times Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail . . . paints a disturbing picture. --Entertainment Weekly A fascinatingly detailed account. --USA Today It will hook you from the first page and never let you go. --San Francisco Chronicle Vulgar Favors by Maureen Orth might be called the complete Cunanan. . . . She [has] an indefatigable hunger to know everything. --Chicago Tribune A detailed page-turner. --St. Paul Pioneer Press An exceptionally good account of suspected serial killer Andrew Cunanan's spree in 1997 . . . Orth tells this twisted story with grace and courage. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram Orth has an inviting, readable style. --Oakland Tribune The definitive book on the July 15, 1997 murder of Versace. --Sun-Sentinel An exhilarating journalistic chronicle of Cunanan's crime and flight . . . The book is charged with adrenaline and the pages just seem to turn themselves. --Lesbian and Gay New York Breathless...a page-turner...Orth's exhaustive research and wealth of details make vulgar favors as hard to turn away from as a top-drawer horror movie....It will hook you from the first page and never let you go. --San Francisco Chronicle [An] exhaustive deconstruction of Andrew Cunanan's five murders...the breadth and thoroughness of Orth's research are often staggering. --The New York Times Fascinating... ripe with chilling detail...it paints a disturbing picture. --Entertainment Weekly A fascinatingly detailed account. --USA Today Orth tells this twisted story with grace and courage. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram Mesmerizing. --Oakland Tribune Fascinating. --Don Imus

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Maureen Orth's award winning career began as one of the first women writers at Newsweek. Currently a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, she has profiled everyone from Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel to Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, and has researched and written groundbreaking pieces on Woody Allen and Michael Jackson, among others. Her far-ranging work not only includes the investigation of serial killer Andrew Cunanan but also a bestselling cover story for National Geographic on the Virgin Mary

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