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ROLLING STONE
Sometime in 1998
Anni Layne
By unearthing the skeleton of rock music's most tragic 1990s martyr, the controversial independent film Kurt and Courtney apparently opened a Pandora's Box of conspiracy theories. To commemorate the four-year anniversary of Cobain's death, Birch Lane Press today will release Who Killed Kurt Cobain?, an investigative book that looks beyond the suicide note and shotgun found in the lead singer's Seattle home. Canadian journalists Max Wallace and Ian Halperin play Sherlock Holmes, dusting for fingerprints on the gun and pen, tracking the person who used Cobain's credit cards and asking how the Nirvana icon managed to shoot himself after ingesting a triple lethal dose of heroin. They follow the steps of Beverly Hills private investigator Tom Grant, who was hired by concerned wife Courtney Love to find Cobain after he fled a Los Angeles rehabilitation center just one week before his death. Wallace and Halperin, who worked as consultants for the BBC on Nick Broomfield's film Kurt and Courtney, distrust the police conclusion that Cobain's death was a suicide. They believe that his death -- which sparked 60 copycat suicides across the nation -- is even more complex, twisted and dark than the music Cobain left behind.
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