A Death in Belmont

A Death in Belmont
ISBN-10
0393059804
ISBN-13
9780393059809
Category
True Crime
Pages
266
Language
English
Published
2006-04-17
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Sebastian Junger

Description

Documents the events surrounding the early 1960s serial murder case of the Boston Strangler, recounting how an innocent African-American housekeeper was hastily convicted and how the actual killer, carpenter Albert DeSalvo, eventually confessed. First serial, Vanity Fair. 300,000 first printing.

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