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. Sebastian Junger. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 261-263).

Norton Professional Books

Harper Perennial

New York: Norton

1st Harper Perennial ed, New York, NY, 2007

United States, United States of America

First edition, New York :, 2006

April 18, 2006

1, PS, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references.

A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood .
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 DeSalvothe man who would eventually confess in lurid detail to the Strangler's crimesis also in Belmont, working as a carpenter at the Jungers' home. In this spare, powerful narrative, Sebastian Junger chronicles three lives that collideand ultimately are destroyedin the vortex of one of the first and most controversial serial murder cases in America.

Includes bibliographical references
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

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