The Truman Doctored
Published by mr.president January 31st, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS ABROAD, PRESIDENT'S CHILDREN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, HARRY S.TRUMAN, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYMurky Record 
She was billed as a singer during the Truman Administration, but the late Margaret Truman achieved greater fame for cashing in with an interminable stream of Murder At The [insert known DC landmark here] novels carrying her name.
Perhaps the definitive excavation of the Margaret Truman books and who may have actually written them appeared in The Weekly Standard. Jon L. Breen toured the murky world of celebrity ghost written novels, with a hard stare at the Truman industry.
Breen fingers Donald Bain, whose works under his own name have a respectable following. Perhaps now we’ll learn the facts. Or maybe not. The long dead Eliot Roosevelt continues to pump out the paper.
And when imagination completely failed: 
