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The Boston Strangler

by Gerold Frank · 1966

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The most bizarre series of murders since Jack the Ripper triggered the greatest man-hunt in the annals of modern crime for Albert deSalvo, brutal sexual psychopath, who murdered thirteen women and held a city in the icy grip of terror for eighteen months.

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true crimetrue crimeMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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Setting
1960s1960sMore like thisLess of thisBostonBostonMore like thisLess of thisMassachusettsMassachusettsMore like thisLess of thisNew EnglandNew EnglandMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
long · 408 pages

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