IN THE FAST LANE A True Story of Murder in Miami

Hardback. Stan Cohen was a Miami success story, a hometown boy who made millions in the rough-and-tumble South Florida construction trade. At 40, rich and charismatic, he met and married Joyce McDillon, a beautiful 24yr old divorcee struggling to support a young son. Stan adored his young bride. Together they lived and spent lavishly - expensive jewellery, furs and cars, a beautiful home in the fashionable suburb of Coconut Grove, a penthouse condo on Biscayne Bay, a 650-acre vacation retreat in Colorado, parties, nightclubs, yachts, and a private jet to take them wherever they wanted to go. After 11yrs of marriage, Stan Cohen was at the peak of his profession and Joyce had blossomed into an exotically beautiful socialite with exquisite taste and a unique style. But the Cohens' fairytale lives were shattered in the early morning of March 7, 1986, when Stan was shot to death with his own gun as he lay nude in the master bedroom of their Coconut Grove home. The brutal crime rocked the city. Who had wanted Stan Cohen dead? And why? A sobbing, hysterical Joyce told the police she had seen only the fleeting shadows of intruders who had broken into the house. Stan's son and daughter by a previous marriage confided their suspicions that their stepmother was somehow involved in their father's murder. After more than 3yrs of investigation, Joyce was finally arrested, and accused of the murder of her husband. All of Miami was riveted by the sensational trial. Then it was up to the jury to decide which was the real Joyce Cohen: a coke-snorting Cinderella who took out a contract on her prince, or the unfortunate victim of cruel and devious stepchildren. The author's vivid account of this story of love, murder, and revenger is as dramatic and shocking as an episode of "Miami Vice." Illus. + Epilogue. 318pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in sl. sunned Nr. F. dw.