American demon : Eliot Ness and the hunt for America's Jack the Ripper / Daniel Stashower.
"Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Cleveland's Lake Erie: the lower half of a female torso, neatly severed at the waist. The victim, dubbed "The Lady of the Lake," was only the first of a butcher's dozen. Over the next four years, twelve more bodies would be scattered across the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of blood. Some were beheaded while still alive. Terror gripped the city. Amid the growing uproar, Cleveland's besieged mayor turned to his newly-appointed director of public safety: Eliot Ness. Ness had come to Cleveland fresh from his headline-grabbing exploits in Chicago, where he and his band of "Untouchables" led the frontline assault on Al Capone's bootlegging empire. Now he would confront a case that would redefine his storied career. Award-winning author Daniel Stashower shines a fresh light on one of the most notorious puzzles in the annals of crime, and uncovers the gripping story of Ness's hunt for a sadistic killer who was as brilliant as he was cool and composed, a mastermind who was able to hide in plain sight. American Demon reconstructs this ultimate battle of wits between a hero and a madman." -- Amazon.com
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250041166
- ISBN: 1250041163
- ISBN: 9781250905727
- Physical Description: viii, 342 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, an imprint of St.Martin's Publishing Group, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-330) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prologue: The last of the good guys -- Part I: AI's nemesis -- Lady in the Lake -- Chicago has fallen -- Jackass Hill -- Snorky's Last Ride -- Part II:The Mad butcher strikes again -- Capone nemesis gets big job -- Woman slain, head sought in coal bins -- "Let's Go" -- Tattooed man -- Lake torso -- Voodoo doctors and chicken freaks -- Steel and Bone -- Do you know this room? -- Part III:Who is this mad torso killer? -- Gaylord Sundheim -- Misguided Zeal -- Hot seat -- There goes Eliot Ness -- Amercian Sweeney -- Epilogue: Eliot-Am-Big-U-ous-Ness.
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