Closing Time: The True Story of the ‘Looking for Mr. Goodbar’ Murder Audiobook (Free)

The true story behind the murder of a Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: ‘A first-rate achievement’ (Truman Capote).

In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a college for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man house to her apartment from an Top West Side pub. The criminal offense made headlines as well as the ensuing case quickly advanced into a social sensation, spawning both a #1 New York Times–bestselling novel and a film about Shutting Time: THE REAL Story of the ‘Looking for Mr. Goodbar’ Murder adaptation starring Diane Keaton and Richard Gere, and sparking debates about the intimate revolution and the perils of the ‘pickup scene’ at what had been popularly known as singles bars.

In this groundbreaking true criminal offense tale, Lacey Fosburgh, the brand new York Times reporter first assigned towards the tale, utilizes an inventive dramatization technique, in which she gives the victim a different name, to veer between the chilling, suspenseful personal connections before the brutal stabbing as well as the gritty information on its aftermath, like the NYPD investigation as well as the arrest of John Wayne Wilson.

An Edgar Award finalist for Best Truth Crime, this common from the genre is ‘even more riveting, and more tragic, than the Judith Rossner book—and 1977 movie Looking for Mr. Goodbar’ (Men’s Journal).