A death in Belmont

Record details

ISBN: 9780060829957
ISBN: 0060829958
Physical Description: 7 sound discs (8 hrs.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
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Publisher: [New York] : HarperCollins Publisher, p2006.

General Note:	Compact disc. Unabridged.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Executive producer and director, Rick Harris ; recorded, Angela Piva ; mixed and mastered by Richard Romaniello.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Kevin Conway.
Summary, etc.:	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.