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A captivating eloquent and deeply original book We All Go into the Dark is an absolute mustread for truecrime fans across the board

Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968 and late 1969 each after a night dancing at Glasgows infamous Barrowland Ballroom Their murders were linked and ascribed to the spectre of the welldressed scripturequoting killer who had apparently stalked the citys dancehalls The figure was never caught or identified
But the intervening years spawned a legend that never quite lost its grip on the popular imagination of Glasgow The killings provoked the countrys largest ever manhunt as well as countless suspects books documentaries earnest speculation pub theorising and bouts of urban mythmaking
In We All Go into the Dark Francisco Garcia delves into how Bible John has morphed across generations interrogates our collective obsession with solving historic crimes and questions why some killings are forgotten with indecent haste and why others are never permitted to be forgotten at all