title: I ragazzi del massacro
text: # I ragazzi del massacro
  
  I ragazzi del massacro is a 1968 crime novel by the Italian writer Giorgio Scerbanenco. It revolves a murder case where a young Northern Italian woman is found dead and naked in a classroom. It was the third installment in Scerbanenco's Milan Quartet about the medical doctor and investigator Duca Lamberti.
  
  ## Publication
  
  The novel was published in 1968 through Garzanti in Milan. It has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Japanese.
  
  ## Film adaptation
  
  The novel was the basis for the 1969 Italian film Naked Violence. The film was directed by Fernando Di Leo and stars Pier Paolo Capponi as Lamberti.
  
  