The Murder at Asbury Park - Softcover

Lucia, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097411393X ISBN 13: 9780974113937

Publisher: Peter Lucia Projects, 2017

Synopsis

November, 1910. Asbury Park, N.J. Ten-year-old Marie Smith is brutally murdered. After days of investigation, Asbury Park and county officials are at their wits end in their attempt to pin the crime on two suspects, one black, one white. Finally the authorities decide to call in the famous William J. Burns National Detective Agency. Twenty-eight-year-old Raymond C. Schindler is manager of the New York office. It is his first murder case. As the Burns Agency’s motto is “succeed where others fail,” he has a lot on his shoulders. After weeks of frustrating work—with a retinue of agents—Schindler decides to pull out all the stops. He, with Burns’ consent, formulates an audacious sting operation (which includes a fake murder, fake criminals, and many other ruses) designed to make the more likely suspect reveal his dark secrets. What unfolds is one of the most extraordinary cases in detective history. Told throughout the 20th Century in anecdotal “amazing detective” articles, this remarkable murder case can now be fully documented—and in almost unbelievable day-by-day detail—constructed in such a way that over half of the story is told in the words of the people involved in it. The newly uncovered detective reports are a trove of compelling (often shocking) historical narratives—and feature those of the “sting” or “rope” detective, Carl R. Neumeister. Posing as an elite outlaw, he lived with the suspect for over two months. In “The Murder at Asbury Park” the dead return to life and reclaim their “voices” on paper and in the reader’s mind. It’s true crime in reportage, literal and without invention. Truly, it’s like nothing (nothing!) you’ve ever seen before. With 60 illustrations, many of them rare and one of a kind. Also by Peter Lucia: "One Week in Venice - A Tale of Quantum Mystery."

About this title

About the Author

Peter Lucia was born and raised on the New Jersey Shore, where he still resides. He has degrees from Columbia University in Italian Studies with a very high concentration in Philosophy. He taught Italian as a graduate student at Columbia and Italian and English at Berlitz School of Languages in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. His serious hobbies (and sometime-professions) include classical guitar, which he has played and studied, off and on, since the mid-1960s, computer art, photography, travel to Italy, local history, and all kinds of writing. He often contributes these skills to the personal projects of friends and family. He has no dogs, no cats, no wife and no kids.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lucia Projects
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 097411393X
• ISBN 13: 9780974113937
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 374