In a tone that is completely irreverent (some might say snarky), Alan W. Petrucelli examines the deaths of the famous and infamous in Morbid Curiosity. The book includes chapters on celebrities from the Golden Age of Hollywood, modern actors and musicians, well-known authors, politicians and presidents, and even pets. Each person gets two or three paragraphs—a little more than a page at most.
This certainly isn’t a vital book, but it does contain a few interesting nuggets. If only the author (and his editor) had taken a little more time with the final galleys; the book is littered with errors in proofreading and punctuation.