Helltown : The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod / Casey Sherman.
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TextPublisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781728245959Other title: Hell townSubject(s): Costa, Antone Charles, 1944-1974 | Serial murderers -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- Biography | Serial murders -- Massachusetts -- Cape CodGenre/Form: True crime stories. DDC classification: 364.152/32092 | B LOC classification: HV6248.C669 | S54 2022Summary: "In the winter of 1969, the bodies of four young women were discovered in a cemetery near the tip of Cape Cod. In a place once known as Helltown, the victims had been shot, stabbed, dismembered, and mutilated. As investigators would soon learn, the perpetrator was a young, handsome, serial killer named Tony Costa. A bizarre former taxidermist with a split personality and penchant for violence, Costa ultimately mobilized friends in the hippie community for support and retribution and captivated literary icons and rivals Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer. Costa embarked on a daring cat-and-mouse game with investigators, who-as the body count kept growing-were desperate to put an end to the killing season on Cape Cod"-- Provided by publisher.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | 364.152 SHER (Browse shelf) | Available | 40405 |
Includes a reading group guide (pages [430]-431)
Includes bibliographical references (pages [432]-453)
"In the winter of 1969, the bodies of four young women were discovered in a cemetery near the tip of Cape Cod. In a place once known as Helltown, the victims had been shot, stabbed, dismembered, and mutilated. As investigators would soon learn, the perpetrator was a young, handsome, serial killer named Tony Costa. A bizarre former taxidermist with a split personality and penchant for violence, Costa ultimately mobilized friends in the hippie community for support and retribution and captivated literary icons and rivals Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer. Costa embarked on a daring cat-and-mouse game with investigators, who-as the body count kept growing-were desperate to put an end to the killing season on Cape Cod"-- Provided by publisher.
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