DEADLY GREED The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case That Rocked Boston and Shocked the Nation.

Hardback, 1st US edition. His pregnant wife stood between him and everything he wanted...so Charles Stuart killed Carol DiMaiti Stuart on the way home from their Lamaze class and blamed the attack on a black man. It happened in Boston, in October 1989, though it could have happened in any major city in America. It confirmed America's long-held racial fears - that a white couple was unsafe in a black neighbourhood. It set off a wave of police and prosecutorial zeal so heated that young blacks in Boston's Mission Hill district were strip-searched in the streets. It created sensational headlines from coast to coast. Two and a half months after his wife's murder, the evidence was mounting that Charles Stuart had done the unspeakable - killed his wife and unborn child in order to begin the new life he'd long fantasized about. When Chuckie jumped to his own death from the city's highest bridge, the Stuart case became a cautionary tale of the end of a decade of greed gone bad. Illus. 243pp. 8vo. h/back. F. in Nr. F. dw.