MISSING BEAUTY: A True Story of Murder and Obsession. by…

MISSING BEAUTY: A True Story of Murder and Obsession.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Norton, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Reconstruction of a fascinating murder case in Boston: "A distraught father walks into the newsroom of the Boston Herald asking for help in locating his missing daughter, a breautiful commercial artist named Robin Benedict...Benedict is actually a high-paid prostitute in Boston's Combat Zone. The suspect is the eminent anatomist Dr. William Henry James Douglas who, it is learned, has been embezzling funds from his laboratory at Tufts University to support his costly entanglement with Benedict." Photographs, bibliography. 474 pp. ISBN: 0-393025691.

Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some toning to the pages.)

Book ID: 36982
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