Slaughter on North Lasalle

Authors: Snow, Robert L.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: TRU002000, SOC004000, BIO027000
ISBN: 9781101585177, Related ISBNs: 0425250474, 110158517X, 9780425250471, 9781101585177
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: On December 1, 1971, the bodies of Robert Gierse, James Barker, and Robert Hinson were found in their blood-spattered Indianapolis home. All three had reputations as prodigious womanizers, hard-drinking bar fighters, and unscrupulous businessmen--the kind of men with more enemies than friends.

When detectives searched the home and discovered an address book used as a sex contest scorecard, their new suspect list included jilted one-night stands, jealous boyfriends, and husbands--dozens upon dozens of names. Sensational reports and rumors soon overwhelmed the investigation , and real answers eluded the police and the media alike for three decades, until Roy West, a detective with a reputation for cracking "unsolvable" cases, re-opened the files...

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