Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder

In 1973, a woman who taught students with hearing loss was killed in her Manhattan apartment after she brought a man home from a bar on the Upper West Side. Her death came to stand for the risks many associated with casual sex and the singles-bar scene of the era, and it drew wide public attention. Lacey Fosburgh, who covered the case for a newspaper, retells it as a true crime account. She gives the victim a different name and moves between the tense hours before the attack and the investigation that followed, including the police work that led to an arrest. The book looks closely at a crime that became a broader cultural debate.