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Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder

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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1977

Genre
  
True crime

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1977

Author
  
Lacey Fosburgh

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."

References

Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder Wikipedia


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