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Title: Too much murder, not enough town
Review: It reads like a vast collection of newspaper articles, which isn't such a bad thing if you just want a broad overview of the case. To live up to his title, Schiller could have beefed up the 'town' component of the book. Apart from a token introduction that runs through your standard Boulder stereotypes, some namedropping of places like Mike's Camera and maybe some implications about Boulder because of some of the cops' attitudes, the book really doesn't say much about Boulder at all. In the end, I did develop a pretty good theory about the murder, and I don't necessarily feel as though I was led there by the author--though he does hit you over the head a bit with his own ideas.
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