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A Death in Belmont

A Death in Belmont

HistoryTrue Crime
Pages
387
Published
2006
Language
English

Synopsis

In the spring of 1963, a shocking sex murder in Belmont, Massachusetts, mirrors the Boston Strangler's pattern. Police quickly convict Roy Smith, a black man who cleaned the victim's house, but the Strangler's reign of terror continues. Meanwhile, Albert DeSalvo, the eventual confessor to the Strangler's crimes, is also in Belmont on the day of the murder. This powerful narrative chronicles the collision of these three lives, ultimately destroyed by one of America's most controversial serial murder cases.

Prose complexity
7/10

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DarkTenseMysteriousInformative
Mystery Box

Genres

History True Crime

About the author

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Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger is the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont and Fire. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News, he has covered major international news stories in Liberia, Sierra Leone and other places around the globe. He has been awarded the National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for Journalism. Junger became a fixture in the national media when, as a first-time author, he commanded The New Yo...