The Boston Strangler by Gerold Frank 1st Edition Hardcover 1966

The Boston Strangler by Gerold Frank 1st Edition Hardcover 1966 - no dust jacket 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. From 1962-1964, thirteen women were sexually assaulted and murdered, strangled to death by an unknown assailant. This book chronicles the resulting manhunt. This was a pretty engaging read. The writing was breezy and it did a good job of presenting each suspect as a believable candidate for being the Boston Strangler. One by one they were introduced and dismissed. Gerold Frank was an American author and ghostwriter. He wrote several celebrity memoirs and was considered a pioneer of the "as told to" form of (auto)biography. His best-known book however, is The Boston Strangler (1966), which was adapted as the 1968 movie starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda.