Author Casey Sherman, who grew up on Cape Cod, says he learned about the case 'in almost a joking fashion, as serial killer Tony Costa was nicknamed 'Tony Chop Chop' by local residents.'
In"Helltown," the time and place become characters: 1969, for the chaotic reasons mentioned above, and Provincetown, because the outer Cape town is, and always has been, known as a place for artists to be themselves without fear.
"It was a very rare thing to have two literary icons such as Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer reporting on a serial murder case in their own backyard as both men lived on the Cape at the time. In early 1969, Vonnegut had yet to become a literary star, while Mailer had been a bestselling writer since his debut novel,"The Naked and the Dead," in 1948," says Sherman.
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