cover image Deadly Masquerade

Deadly Masquerade

Richard T. Pienciak. Onyx Books, $5.99 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-451-17033-0

Outwardly successful Wall Streeter Joseph Pikul was a wife abuser, cross-dresser and probable bisexual who murdered his second wife, Diane, shortly after the 1987 market crash; convicted of the crime, he died of AIDS before his appeal could be adjudicated. According to PW , ``Pienciak . . . expertly dissects the case.'' Photos. Author tour. (July)