Genealogy of a murder : four generations, three families, one fateful night / Lisa Belkin.
The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer. Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling realization. He knows who the shooter is. In fact, the man―a prisoner out on parole―had called him only days before. By helping his former charge and trainee, the doctor, a believer in second chances, may have inadvertently helped set the murder into motion. And with that one phone call, may have sealed a policeman’s fate. Alvin Tarlov, David Troy, and Joseph DeSalvo were all born of the Great Depression, all with grandparents who’d left different homelands for the same American Dream. How did one become a doctor, one a cop, and one a convict? In Genealogy of a Murder , journalist Lisa Belkin traces the paths of each of these three men―one of them her stepfather. Her canvas is large, spanning the first half of the 20th immigration, the struggles of the working class, prison reform, medical experiments, politics and war, the nature/nurture debate, epigenetics, the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, and the history of motorcycle racing. It is also a look into the workings of the mind and heart.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393285253
- ISBN: 0393285251
- Physical Description: xix, 402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, 1 genealogical table : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-392) and index. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Police murders > Connecticut > Stamford. Murder > Connecticut > Stamford. Troy, David > Death and burial. Tarlov, Alvin R. (Alvin Richard), 1929- DeSalvo, Joseph. |
Genre: | True crime stories. |
Available copies
- 22 of 26 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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- 1 current hold with 26 total copies.
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Abington Community Library | 363.209 BELKIN (Text) | 50687011836791 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Albright Memorial Library | 363.209 BELKIN (Text) | 50686016302965 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Altoona Area Public Library | 364.1523 BEL (Text) | 33240004695964 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Annie Halenbake Ross Library | 364.1523 Bel (Text)
Memorial:
In Memoriam of Charles M. Flaig
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00159534 | ADULT Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Tulpehocken Public Library | 364.1523 BEL (Text) | 33249025393889 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
Carbondale Public Library | 363.209 BELKIN (Text) | 50688010866169 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Carroll Valley Library | 363.2 BELKIN (Text)
Endowment:
Joan T. Crapster Named Endowment, 2023
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35740635955644 | New Nonfiction | Available | - |
Dalton Community Library | 363.209 BELKIN (Text) | 50689010461084 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Degenstein Community Library | NF 364.152 BELKIN (Text) | 35031301253400 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
DuBois Public Library | 364.152 BELKIN (Text) | 61000100098728 | Adult NonFiction | Available | - |