Cover Image

Eliot Ness and the mad butcher hunting America's deadliest unidentified serial killer at the dawn of modern criminology

"In the spirit of Devil in the White City and Furious Hours comes the haunting true story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case-his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the 1936 World Fair"--

Main Authors: Collins, Max Allan (Author), Schwartz, A. Brad (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Ness, Eliot.
Serial murderers > Ohio > Cleveland > Case studies.
Serial murder investigation > Ohio > Cleveland > Case studies.
Murder > Ohio > Cleveland > Case studies.
Case studies.
True crime stories.
Biographies.
Summary: "In the spirit of Devil in the White City and Furious Hours comes the haunting true story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case-his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the 1936 World Fair"--
Physical Description: xii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-541) and index.
ISBN: 9780062881977
0062881973
9780062881984
0062881981
Author Notes: Max Allen Collins was born in 1948 in Muscatine, Iowa. He is a two-time winner of the Private Eye Writer's of America's Shamus Award for his Nathaniel Heller historical thrillers "True Detective" and "Stolen Away". Collins also wrote the Dick Tracy comic strip begining in 1977 and ending in the early 1990s. He has contributed to a number of other comics, including Batman. Collins created his first independent feature film, Mommy, following a nightmarish experience as screenwriter on the cable movie The Expert.

Collins has been contracted by DC Comics to write three tie-ins to his critically acclaimed graphic novel "The Road to Perdition", which was adapted into the feature film. Author of other such move tie-in bestsellers as "In the Line of Fire" and "Air Force One", he is also the screenwriter/director of the cult favorite suspense films "Mommie" and "Mommie's Day".

(Publisher Provided)

Similar Items