Murder at the Academy Awards
Rivers publishes a murder mystery with Jerrilyn Farmer, Murder at the Academy Awards: A Red Carpet Murder Mystery. The novel is is a thinly disguised roman à clef, where Joan is Maxine Taylor, who with her daughter Drew, a cover for her daughter Melissa Rivers, track down the murder of a Hollywood starlet who mysteriously drops dead on the Academy Awards red carpet.
Even the dust jacket was made by Chanel.