Skip of the Week : The Murder of Marilyn Monroe, <i> By Leonore Canevari, Jeanette van Wyhe, Christian Dimas and Rachel Dimas (Carroll & Graf: $8.95).</i>

During the summer of 1990, the spirit of Marilyn Monroe visited “a group of leading psychics,” speaking through a ouija board and entering the body of one to give them a “moment by moment account of her own murder.” To corroborate Marilyn’s charge that she was murdered, they questioned the spirits of Peter Lawford, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Sam Giancana. Lest the cynical reader accuse them of such base motives as publicity-seeking or exploiting the dead, the authors emphasize they are attempting “to put to rest this tormented soul whose very substance wept, contending that an injustice was perpetrated against her.” “Bowing to good taste,” they omit the “explicit details about the sexual practices between her and John (Kennedy)” (Thank heaven!).