Summary of American Demon Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower |
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| Author:
| Davison, Justin |
| ISBN: | 979-8-3520-7552-4 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2022 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $11.99 |
Book Description:
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This book is intended to serve as a comprehensive overview of the original book rather than to replace it in any way. This is an independent author publication by Justin Davison that provides a detailed summary of the book. Boston was home to a Strangler. The Zodiac Killer lived in California. Cleveland also had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run in the midst of the Great Depression. A young beachgoer found the lower half of a female body,...
More Description This book is intended to serve as a comprehensive overview of the original book rather than to replace it in any way.
This is an independent author publication by Justin Davison that provides a detailed summary of the book.
Boston was home to a Strangler. The Zodiac Killer lived in California. Cleveland also had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run in the midst of the Great Depression.
A young beachgoer found the lower half of a female body, neatly severed at the waist, on Cleveland's Lake Erie shoreline on September 5th, 1934. The "Lady of the Lake" was simply the first of a butcher's dozen victims. Twelve more bodies would be left all around the city over the course of the following four years. Surgical precision was used to dismember the bodies, and the blood was then removed. While still alive, some people were executed by beheading.
The city was seized by fear. As the commotion grew, Cleveland's beleaguered mayor went to Eliot Ness, his recently hired director of public safety. After his sensational adventures in Chicago, where he and his group of "Untouchables" led the frontline assault on Al Capone's bootlegging enterprise, Ness had just left, he had traveled to Cleveland. His illustrious career would be redefined by the case he would now face.
Award-winning author Daniel Stashower sheds new light on one of the most infamous mysteries in criminal history and reveals the compelling tale of Ness's search for a vicious killer who was as clever as he was cool and collected, a mastermind who could hide in plain sight. In American Demon, a hero and a lunatic reenact their titanic intellectual conflict.