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"The disappearance of a twenty-one-year-old woman from a Massachusetts suburb became one of the most discussed crimes of the twentieth century. The discussion intensified when the public learned that Robin Benedict worked as a prostitute in Boston's notorious red-light district, the ""Combat Zone,"" and was linked by a trail of blood to a famous professor from Tufts University. When Robin Benedict vanished, the investigation and media circus that gripped the city of Boston hadn't been seen since the days of the Boston Strangler case. On a Sunday morning in March 1983, a small-time pimp walked into a police station and claimed his girlfriend was missing. He said she had been on her way to visit a client named William Douglas. In the year that followed, the case drew in detectives, state troopers, scores of journalists, and even psychics. But Robin was never found. Boston Tabloid reconstructs a grisly murder and explores one man's bizarre obsession. In revisiting this legendary crime, Don Stradley consulted journalists involved in the media frenzy, prison authorities, arresting officers, and psychiatrists, all in an effort to unravel a most tangled story. Why was the city, and the nation, swept up in this sordid tale? It remains a grim and fascinating moment in Boston's history."

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Boston Tabloid is everything a top-notch true-crime book should be and more. -- Linda Rosencrance, author of Murder at Morses Pond In captivating prose that may just keep you up at night...Stradley exposes Boston's seedy history in a way that reimagines true crime and contemporary American history. -- Bob Batchelor, author of The Bourbon King We're fascinated in this country by scandal. Add a true crime element to it, with a penchant for suspense and mystery, but, most important, a sincerity and integrity in telling the victim's story, and you've got yourself a nonfiction thriller of the highest caliber. Don Stradley's Boston Tabloid answers the call to take true crime to the next level--a true page-turner, it brings the reality of Boston's underbelly to the forefront for perhaps the first time. -- M. William Phelps, New York Times bestselling author

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Don Stradley is the author of several books of nonfiction, including The War: Hagler-Hearns and Three Rounds for the Ages, named one of The Progressive magazine's Favorite of Books 2021, and Slaughter in the Streets: When Boston Became Boxing's Murder Capital, named by CrimeReads in 2020 as one of the Classics of Boxing Literature. His work has also appeared in The Ring, Cinema Retro, and on ESPN.com Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist several times and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has won a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, numerous Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews, and multiple Editors' Picks, Top 10, and Year's Best lists. He is the only male audiobook narrator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To relax in his spare time, Patrick runs marathons.

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