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Despite being scoffed at as conspiracy theorists in the media and excoriated by the likes of Courtney Love, Nick Auf der Maur and the Seattle police, local journalists Max Wallace and Ian Halperin have finally released their controversial book on the death of Kurt Cobain. >> Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon calls for a new investigation into Cobain's death in the face of some rather persuasive evidence that he was murdered. "Seattle police will never admit that they bungled the investigation," Wallace says. >> Among the damning evidence the authors present is testimony from handwriting experts who say parts of Cobain's suicide note were not written by Cobain, forensic pathologists who say there was no way Cobain could have shot himself with the amount of heroin that was in his bloodstream, and lawyers who say that before his death Cobain had written but not yet signed a will excluding his wife Courtney Love from the Nirvana millions. >> The book is published by Birch Lane Press, a New Jersey publisher specializing in biographies. According to New York Magazine, Jack Palladino, an investigative attorney in Love's employ, came to Birch Lane's Manhattan offices shortly before the publishing date demanding to see the company's president. Publisher Stephen Schragis refused to see him, but relayed the message that the book had already been shipped. >> Booklist calls it a "very good and interesting book, sans hero worship, for fans of pop music and murder mysteries alike, one that soberly lays out the case for thinking this pop icon's death may not be an open-and-shut case." --Jacquie Charlton