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A death in Belmont
Junger, Sebastian.
Junger, the author of the bestseller The Perfect Storm, uses his family's brush with murder and with the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, who was a handyman at the Junger's home, to explore race and justice in America. Junger's story follows three lives that collide in the midst of one of the
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Publisher: Norton,
Pub date: c2006.
Pages: xi, 266 p. :
ISBN: 0393059804
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A death in Belmont
Junger, Sebastian.

Summary

Junger, the author of the bestseller The Perfect Storm, uses his family's brush with murder and with the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, who was a handyman at the Junger's home, to explore race and justice in America. Junger's story follows three lives that collide in the midst of one of the most controversial serial murder cases in America. Annotation©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Publishers Weekly Review

Starred Review. Bessie Goldberg was strangled to death in her home in Belmont, a Boston suburb, in March of 1963 right in the middle of the Boston Strangler's killing spree. Her death has not usually been associated with the other Strangler killings because Roy Smith, a black man who was working in Goldberg's house that day, was convicted of her murder on strong circumstantial evidence. But another man was working in Belmont that day: Albert DeSalvo, who later confessed to being the Boston Strangler, was doing construction work in the home of Junger's parents (the author himself was a baby). Could DeSalvo have slipped away and killed Bessie Goldberg? Junger's taut narrative makes dizzying hairpin turns as he considers all the evidence for, and against, Smith or DeSalvo being Goldberg's killer; he also reviews the more familiar case for and against DeSalvo being the Strangler for there are serious questions about his confession. As Junger showed in his bestselling The Perfect Storm, he's a hell of a storyteller, and here he intertwines underlying moral quandaries was racism a factor in Smith's conviction? How to judge when the truth in this case is probably unknowable? with the tales of two men: Smith, a ne'er-do-well from a racist South who rehabilitated himself before dying in prison; DeSalvo, a sexual predator raised by a violent father who was stabbed to death in prison. This perplexing story gains an extra degree of creepiness from Junger's personal connection to it. First serial to Vanity Fair;19-city author tour. (May 1) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

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A death in Belmont
Junger, Sebastian.
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Leader: am4a0c
Key: ocm62878666
Data source: OCoLC
Fixed field data: 060107s2006 nyua b 000 0 eng
LCCN: 2006000488
ISBN: 0393059804 (hardcover)
IAN: 9780393059809
Cataloging source: DLC DLC IK2 BAKER IEB C#P BUR
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: n-us-ma
Local holdings: OCPP
LC Call Number: HV6534.B43 J86 2006
DDC class no.: 364.152/3097444 22
Local DDC call #: 364.152309 J95, 2006
Personal name: Junger, Sebastian.
Title: A death in Belmont / Sebastian Junger.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publication info: New York : Norton, c2006.
Description: xi, 266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references.
Summary: 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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Personal subject: Smith, Roy, 1927 or 8-
Personal subject: Goldberg, Bessie.
Personal subject: De Salvo, Albert Henry, 1931-
Topical subject: Murder--Massachusetts--Belmont--Case studies.
OCLC-MARC processing: C0 OCP
Vendor data: Baker & Taylor BKTY 23.95 17.96 0393059804 0006650282 active