What if Albert DeSalvo were in The Departed?
By adamg - Wed, 01/31/2007 - 10:18am.
Based on the publisher's blurb, John Daley is intrigued by William Landay's new novel, The Strangler, which tells the tale of "the three Irish-American Daley brothers: Ricky, a thief; Michael, a lawyer; and Joe, a bent cop" in the shadow of the Boston Strangler murders. But Daley wonders:
I don't know how anyone would get the idea that cops in Boston would be named Daley.
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What Are The Odds?
Ooh--a thief, a lawyer, and a bent cop? And all in the same family? Please tell me they have an uncle who is a priest and that there's also a hooker with a heart of gold in it...
The hooker
Extra bonus twist: The hooker with a heart of gold turns out to be the Daley boys' long-lost sister, given up for adoption when the parents came over from the Old Sod, because the family could no longer afford to keep her when the Old Man started hitting the booze. It all comes out in the climactic scene where the "good" brother cradles her head while she dies in an alley from an overdose of the extra-pure heroin smuggled in by the bad-cop brother - as the first snow of the season gently falls on them.
And To Wrap It All Up Neatly...
Are her dying words are "DeSalvo"?
and then she blows her bent
and then she blows her bent cop brothers brains out.