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3/5 Barnes & Noble Language English Originally published 1977 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date 1977 Publisher Dell Publishing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominations Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime True crime books Under the Bridge, A Rage to Kill, The Dark Side, Bitter Almonds, On Murder 2 |
Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder is a 1977 book by Lacey Fosburgh about the murder of Roseann Quinn, a young New York City schoolteacher who reportedly led a "double life" and was murdered in 1973. Fosburgh appropriated the title of Judith Rossner's Looking for Mr. Goodbar, the acclaimed best-selling novel which had been published two years earlier.
Closing Time was nominated for the 1978 Edgar Award as Best Fact Crime book, despite Fosburgh's mixing of fact and fiction in a controversial technique she referred to as "interpretive biography." In 1980, she admitted to The New York Times that she had "created scenes or dialogue I think it reasonable and fair to assume could have taken place, perhaps even did."
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