''I ragazzi del massacro'' is a 1968 crime novel by the Italian writer

Giorgio Scerbanenco Giorgio Scerbanenco (; russian: Владимир Щербаненко, Vladimir Shcherbanenko; uk, Володимир Щербаненко, Volodymyr Shcherbanenko; 18 July 1911 – 27 October 1969) was a Ukrainian-born Italian crime fiction wr ...

. It revolves a murder case where a young Northern Italian woman is found dead and naked in a classroom. It was the third installment in Scerbanenco's Milan Quartet about the medical doctor and investigator Duca Lamberti.

Publication

The novel was published in 1968 through Garzanti in

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. It has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Japanese.

Film adaptation

The novel was the basis for the 1969 Italian film '' Naked Violence''. The film was directed by

Fernando Di Leo Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985. Biography Fernando Di Leo was born on 11 January 1932 in ...

and stars

Pier Paolo Capponi Pier Paolo Capponi (9 June 1938 – 15 February 2018) was an Italian actor and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Subiaco, after his studies Capponi attended a theater school and later was chosen by director Vittorio De Seta for an import ...

as Lamberti.

References

External links

Italian publicity page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ragazzi del massacro 1968 novels Italian crime novels Italian mystery novels Italian novels adapted into films Italian-language literature Novels by Giorgio Scerbanenco Novels set in Milan 20th-century Italian novels