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.