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The Blue Girl Murders: A Mystery in Turbulent Baltimore in 1966
In THE BLUE GIRL MURDERS, a series of gruesome murders of beautiful young blondes rocks Baltimore during the summer of 1966 when the city already is in turmoil from a police scandal and from enormous racial tension resulting from desegregation efforts by the Congress of Racial Equality and "White Power" rallies by the National States Rights Party. UPI Baltimore bureau manager Nick Prescott goes from covering these stories to trying to help homicide detective Maury Antonelli solve the murders when one of his closest friends becomes a suspect. Prescott uncovers a trail of murder, infidelity and insanity that exposes the killer and puts his own life in mortal danger. The cultural, political and social changes, great music and historic events of 1966 provide the backdrop and themes of this historical mystery. The author was a reporter for United Press International in Baltimore in 1966 and covered many of the events described in the novel. Among the real people who appear in the novel are the soon-to-be Governor (and eventual Vice President), Spiro Agnew, Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin and Stokely Carmichael. A soundtrack of the music featured in the novel is listed at the beginning.
Book Details
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: Oct 2nd, 2015
- Pages: 322
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.02in - 5.98in - 0.67in - 0.95lb
- EAN: 9781517637408
- Categories: • Mystery & Detective - Historical
About the Author
Dan Riker is a progressive writer, novelist and political activist who now lives in Oregon, but lived in Maryland from his college years until 2012. He is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Baltimore School of Law. He has been a journalist with United Press International in Baltimore and Washington, DC, an executive with MCI Communications, Inc., the CEO of Pocket Communications, Inc. and co-owner of Basset Books LLC, a dealer in used and collectible books. He previously published two novels, A LIGHT NOT OF THIS WORLD, and SENECA POINT, A BRANDON WEBSTER MYSTERY, and has written a book on progressivism, DO WHAT WORKS AND CALL IT CAPITALISM, which has not yet been published.