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Description edit
In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking murder that fits the pattern of the infamous Boston Strangler, still at large. Hoping for a break in the case, the police arrest Roy Smith, a black ex-con whom the victim hired to clean her house. Smith... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Roy Smith: Convicted in the death of Bessie Goldberg. At one time thought to be the Boston Strangler.
- Albert Desalvo: Main suspect in the Boston Strangler murders.
- Bessie Goldberg: Murder victim; lived a short distance from the author.
- Delaney: Add a description of this character.
- Richard Kelley
- Beryl Cohen
- Bailey
- Dorothy Hunt
- Nassar
- Cahalane
- Lerone: Brother of Roy Smith.
- Sadie
- John Bottomly
- Mrs. Martin
- Mary Sullivan
- Kennedy: President John F. Kennedy.
- Johnson: President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Wiggins
- Billy
- Russ Blomerth: Handyman who worked with DeSalvo at the Junger's house.
- Anna Slesers
- Nina Nichols
- Meier
- Carol Bell
- Leah Goldberg: Bessie and Israel Goldberg's daughter.
- Graff
- Pizzuto
- Chelsea
- Mary Brown
- Sophie Clark
- Marie
- Helen Blake
- Mcgee
- Malcolm
Setting & Locations edit
- belmont, massachusetts: A suburb of Boston and the home where Junger was born and lived.
- Boston
- Israel Goldberg
- Cambridge
- Norfolk
- Mississippi
- Scott Road
- Walpole
- America
- United States
- Oxford
- Bridgewater
- New Jersey
- New York
- Central Square
- Pleasant Street
- Harlem
- Jitney
- Memphis
- Tuney
- Canada
- Ida Irga
- Roxbury
First Sentence edit
One morning in the fall of 1962, when I was not yet one year old, my mother, Ellen, looked out the window and saw two men in our front yard.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sebastian Junger (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Country: US
Publication Date: April 18, 2006
ISBN: 978-0393059809
Page Count: 320
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Country: US
Publication Date: April 18, 2006
ISBN: 978-0393059809
Page Count: 320
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 364.1523097444
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