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American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
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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.
Minotaur Books
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