
Deadly Greed
The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case
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Narrated by:
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Stephen Bowlby
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Joe Sharkey
From the author of Above Suspicion: the “riveting” true story of Charles Stuart, who murdered his pregnant wife and pinned the crime on a Black man in 1980s Boston (Kirkus Reviews).
On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911 call from his car to report that he and his seven-months-pregnant wife, Carol, a lawyer, had been robbed and shot by a Black male in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. By the time police arrived, Carol was dead, and the baby was soon lost as well. The attack incited a furor during a time of heightened racial tension in the community.
Even more appalling, while the injuries were real, Stuart’s story was a hoax: He was the true killer. But the tragedy would continue with the arrest of Willie Bennett, a young man Stuart identified in a line-up. Stuart’s deception would be exposed only after a shocking revelation from his brother and, finally, his suicide, when he jumped into the freezing waters of the Mystic River.
As the story unraveled, police would put together the disturbing pieces of a puzzle that included Stuart’s distress over his wife’s pregnancy, his romantic interest in a coworker, and life insurance fraud. In an account that “builds and grips like a novel” (Kirkus Reviews), New York Times journalist Joe Sharkey delivers “a picture of a man consumed by naked ambition, unwilling to let anyone or anything get in his way” (Library Journal). Revised and updated, this book also includes a new epilogue by the author.
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Well Told TRUE CRIME
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Overall author did a good job keeping the pace and narrative along with chronology and descriptive character depth based on source material and the narrator was top notch.
A few tangents we could have done with out however including the lengthy description of the competing journalistic ventures in Boston at the time.
Blame it on the Black man
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The Best Book I've Heard In A Long Time
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Conceited fool
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Well-told
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Black people have been here way before the Irish and Italians--don't see how integration was a problem. Especially seeing how the Irish and Italians were treated when they first came here!
Carol's father saw right through Chuck. What an awful human being. I don't see how Carol stayed with him so long! He showed all the signs of a narcissist. Great book!
Great true crime book!
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Compelling story
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Riveting
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additionally the narration is top notch
what a surprise
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Repetitive story lines.
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