No One Is Perfect

The True Story of Candace Mossler and America's Strangest Murder Trial

De: Ron Smith

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Thirty years before the O.J. Simpson case, America was fascinated by another "trial of the century."

Jacques Mossler, a prominent financier known as "King of the Installment Loans", was brutally murdered in his Key Biscayne apartment. Suspicion quickly fell upon Melvin Lane Powers, the shady nephew of Mossler's wife Candace. When investigators discovered that "Candy and Mel" were carrying on an incestuous love affair, the pair were charged with the crime.

The Miami trial featured the legendary defense attorney, Percy Foreman, whose outrageous tactics created a number of memorable moments. A colorful parade of prosecution witnesses shared tales of recruiting hit men, and the unusual relationship between the glamorous aunt and her nephew.

No One Is Perfect is a thoroughly researched account of the landmark trial and the life of its chic blonde defendant.

Make use of the fast forward button.

There's a lot of background information that seems superfluous. However the story (apart from the unnecessarily verbose histories) is solid. I'm not a fan of virtual voice, it's definitely lacking in...well, humanity. It sounds like one of the voices that lists medication side effects instead of a person reading a story about human behavior.

good recounting of a sordid atory

the book itsepf is very well written with interesting details of a long trial and the tricks if the lawyers but the story of Candy Mossler is sad but true.

AI is the Antithesis of Audio Books

The story was interesting in the amount of corruption there was/is in the legal system. If you are wealthy, you can escape justice. That is what you get out of this story.

On the listening side, the AI was horrible and the reason people listen to books is for the voice and personality. Only a human can inflect emotions humans have and carry a sense of the reader. The reader brings their personality to the work. Many follow particular readers for their innate ability to tell the story.

Candace Mossler is quite the narcissistic manipulator

I never heard of this case since I was born in 1959, but even without the new forensic science to support the case…. They had it right.
Ms. Mossler used anyone and everyone to deflect guilt. Her children were pulled into her alibi and were told what to say.
Yet the fact that she was in an incestuous relationship with her nephew is unbelievable. She showed no remorse and a narcissist has no feelings.
The details of how the detectives solved this case shows their dedication to avenging Mr Mossler death.
The Virtual Voice is easy to listen to but, when Vincent Cartocheroni (sp) is said it’s quite entertaining.

Virtual voice ruined the telling of this interesting story

The Virtual Voice narrator made too many laughable and annoying mispronunciations and other auditory mistakes to count. The legal term, “voir dire”, which is of French origin, was repeatedly mispronounced as “vor dire”( long I sound) as in a dire prognosis. Other errors included misplacing the emphasis on the wrong word in a sentence, making it sound like a first grader was reading from a text with absolutely no understanding of the meaning. Certain words were pronounced two different ways in the same sentence. My other major critique is that the narrative of the trial was entirely too long, and would only be of sustained interest to someone studying the history of criminal law in Florida. This is unfortunate, as the story itself is quite interesting and unusual. The ridiculous computer-generated narration and monotonous detailing of every moment of the trial ruins the audiobook.

A LOT OF DETAIL

Could have been a couple of hours shorter easily. The storyline wasn’t involved enough for the length of the book. The AI narrator didn’t help.

Money buys freedom

Very interesting and complex. Twists sexual deviance. Seems long forgotten now but was the talk of the Nation at one point. Gone and long forgotten now.

OJ before OJ

The computer voice was fine ... better than a lot of narrators. Candy was outrageous, and she got away with it the help of a famous lawyer. There is a lot of extra detail, which I skipped past to get to the story

Find a Different Audiobook

This book was done with an AI recording and it's terrible. Most definitely do not recommend.

Truth is better than Fiction

I loved all the details in this true crime summary! Thank you friend Ron Smith.