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.
It has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Japanese.
The film was directed by Fernando Di Leo and stars Pier Paolo Capponi as Lamberti.