American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
The best true crime books read like a mystery novel. Daniel Stashower's American Demon does exactly that. A 1930s cat-and-mouse plot unfolds as Eliot Ness hunts the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. This is narrative non-fiction at its best and most suspenseful.
New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness.
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 vic...




