A Diet of Treacle

SEX, DRUGS, AND MURDER IN THE LAND OF THE LOTUS EATERS

Anita Carbone was a good girl – and it bored her. 

That’s why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young war veteran with the gentle touch. But it was also where she met his drug-dealing roommate – a man whose unnatural appetites led to murder…Read More