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A death in Belmont / Sebastian Junger.

Junger, Sebastian. (Author).

Summary:

In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston, the police track down a black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the victim's house that day and left a receipt with his name on the kitchen counter. Smith is hastily convicted of the Belmont murder, but the terror of the Strangler continues. On the day of the murder, Albert DeSalvo--the man who would eventually confess in lurid detail to the Strangler's crimes--is also in Belmont, working as a carpenter at the Jungers' home. In this spare, powerful narrative, Sebastian Junger chronicles three lives that collide--and ultimately are destroyed--in the vortex of one of the first and most controversial serial murder cases in America.--From publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393059809
  • ISBN: 0393059804
  • ISBN: 0060742690
  • ISBN: 9780060742690
  • Physical Description: xi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Norton, [2006]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263).
Subject:
Smith, Roy, 1927 or 1928-
Goldberg, Bessie.
De Salvo, Albert Henry, 1931-1973.
Murder > Massachusetts > Belmont > Case studies.
Genre:
Case studies.

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  • 51 of 51 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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