Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town is a 2009 creative nonfiction book by Elyssa East, an American writer.
It chronicles a murder that occurred in an area known as Dogtown, Massachusetts, just outside Gloucester, in 1984.
As part of her research for the book, East interviewed the murderer, Peter Hodgkins, in prison.
New England Award and has been critically reviewed.
[2] According to East, the book was inspired in part by the paintings of Dogtown by Marsden Hartley.