Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, The Mob, the CIA
It was a conspiracy of secrets…
…a conspiracy of murder
It started with a single Red Diary. Inside, it contained all the secrets that the owner had listened to and talked to with her lovers. She wrote down everything in there. Her lovers were powerful men and when she threatened to go public with it, she died.
Murdered? Perhaps.
But the diary was missing.
The woman was Marilyn Monroe and her lovers included President John F. Kennedy and his brother, then Attorney General, Robert Kennedy.
Her death remains a mystery…as does the contents of the Red Diary as it has never turned up anywhere.
In this series, a man claims to be the son of Marilyn Monroe. His father? One of the Kennedys but he doesn’t know which one. He has been approached by a mob hitman who was assigned to watch over Marilyn as she carried her pregnancy out in Mexico. The mobster, calling himself Carlos, fell in love with Marilyn as so many other men have. When he witnesses the murder of Marilyn, he steals the diary.
And then he begins his own set of red diaries….to carry on Marilyn’s work.
From the assassination of Kennedy, to the cover up that followed and the deaths of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy to Watergate, Carlos chronicles all the aspects he knows. His role differs in the various conspiracies and he claims he was the one that shot the fatal bullet into Kennedy’s brain…partly for money and partly for retribution for Marilyn’s death.
An investigative team attempts to uncover both the diaries and the truth. Can the story possibly be true? Are there really a set of diaries that will blast everything wide open? As they go deeper, they find stumbling blocks in Washington and from the mob.
The ultimate conspiracy saga left vague enough to be plausible enough to happen but we never know if the scenario actually happen…
…but it could have. And what is the real truth?
Brief Description: A conspiracy saga set around the deaths of Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy and the ramifications thereof. A theoretical approach to what could’ve happened without stating that it did happen but putting the pieces together to make it fit.
Key elements: Conspiracy, drama, and intrigue. Even though no one knows if the story is true, the players involved (mob, "Washington", and the investigate team) have to assume that it is.
Association: An obvious comparison to Oliver Stone’s JFK which was also based on a theory, but this one is more direct in its approach as a speculative piece whereas JFK came across as a "what really happened" piece.
Format: Red Diaries was a double sized four issue series and in addition to providing the story line also gave information and backgroundabout all of the events. Recently released as a trade paperback.
Additional: Although the Raven Chronicles team is called in to investigate (as a favor), any team of detectives could work. Red Diaries is purely a fictional story with a structure that fits into the events that transpired and no conclusion is easily arrived at to whether it was true or not.
Interview with the creator of Red Diaries
