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A distraught father walks into the newsroom of the Boston Herald asking for help in locating his missing daughter, a beautiful commercial artist named Robin Benedict. The publication of her photograph sets in motion a murder investigation that leads to the arrest of one of her former lovers. But nothing is quite what it seems. Benedict is actually a high-paid prostitute in Boston's Combat Zone. The suspect is the eminent anatomist Dr. William Henry James Douglas who, it is learned, has been embezzling funds from his laboratory at Tufts University to support his costly entanglement with Benedict. Pulitzer Prize-winner Teresa Carpenter brilliantly reconstructs one of the most fascinating murder investigations in years -- one which threads its way through many levels of Boston society. We watch a respectable man as he moves from the rarefied, cloistered world of academia into the shadowy recesses of Boston's red-light district, the Combat Zone. We watch as the city's newspapers, stirred to a fever pitch of competition, render the young prostitute a nearly mythological figure. Finally, we watch engrossed as a prosecutor puts together the puzzle, piece by piece, hoping to prove that murder was committed even though the body cannot be found. Is Robin Benedict really dead? If so, was it Dr. Douglas who killed her? As it considers these questions in riveting detail, Teresa Carpenter's work becomes a study of obsession. Not just one man's obsession with a prostitute, but an entire city's fascination with dishonor and the elusive search for beauty. - Jacket flap.
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Missing Beauty: A True Story of Murder and Obsession
2007, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Missing Beauty
September 1, 1989, Pinnacle, Kensington Pub. Corp.
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Missing beauty: a true story of murder and obsession
1989, Hamish Hamilton
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Missing Beauty: a true story of murder and obsession
1988, Norton
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