Title: Deadly masquerade
First published: 1990
Description: Wall Streeter Joseph Pikul and his second wife, Diane, an assistant to the publisher of Harper's magazine, were the archetypal successful couple: they had an apartment in Greenwich Village and a house on Long Island, N.Y., regularly attended the theater and dined out, had two children in private schools. But the husband was a wife-abuser, a cross-dresser, probably a bisexual. Shortly after the market crash in 1987, he killed his wife and, in a bizarre odyssey, took her body first to Massachusetts, then to upstate New York, where he disposed of it.
Subjects: Murder, Case studies, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Murder, united states
Places: New York Metropolitan Area, New York (State)
People: Diane Whitmore Pikul (1943-1987), Joseph Pikul (1934-1989)
LC classification: HV6534.N5 P54 1990