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Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things, Dominic Dunn.

I am so thrilled to have you back with me for this next arc we are getting

into within our New York State of Crime series. It is time to deep dive into the two Mrs. Grenvilles

and explore both the fact and the fiction within the Dominic Dunn, 1985 Ramona Clay. You don't need to

have read the book, y'all. We're going to get into it all.

All the spider webs, all the real things, all the fictitious things. And this case is right up Dominic's

alley. It is a suspicious death. It is high society. It is scandalous. It is shocking.

The death of Billy Woodward provides a peak

inside the lives of the world of the very rich. Dunn will say about this whole affair,

it is where ambition led to tragedy and money influenced justice. Sounds like our man Nick, right? Billy's 195 death is called the

shooting of the century, and his wife has quite a reputation, and Billy is from one of the finest

families in New York. Everyone wants all the lurid and scandalous details, including us.

Let's investigate.

I'm going to pick up with this Peter Buckley piece, remember from last week in our teaser, Murder Most Swank from Vanity Fair in July 1985. Peter Buckley writes,

This month, Crown is publishing Dominic Dunn's novel The Two Mrs. Grenvilles,

the true and full story, according to the acid-tong-capodish narrator, Basil Plant,

of an ambitious showgirl who propels herself to society's top rung, only to have the latter pulled out from beneath her when she shoots her

husband. The locations and many of the details are identical, but this is fiction. This story is

30 years old, and most of the people involved are long gone, says the unacidic, affable, done.

A few key things here just in this opening paragraph, investigators.

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