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Eliot Ness and the mad butcher, hunting America's deadliest unidentified serial killer at the dawn of modern criminology, Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-541) and index

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Eliot Ness and the mad butcher

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Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz

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"--, Provided by publisherIn 1934 Eliot Ness-- fresh from taking on the greatest gangster in American history-- arrived in Cleveland. In 1936 the city would host the Great Lake Exposition, which would be visited by seven million people. But in late 1934 parts of bodies started washing up on the Lake Erie shore. Ness found his drive to transform American policing subverted by a menace largely unknown to law enforcement: a serial murderer. Collins and Schwartz uncover this lost crime epic, delivering a gripping battle between a flawed hero and a twisted monster-- by turns horror story, political drama, detective thriller, and American tragedy. -- adapted from jacket

Prologue: Untouchable -- Public safety. The dark city ; An impossible mission ; Showdown ; The mad butcher ; This is a raid! ; The butcher's meat ; Perfect victims -- The unknowns. Hero of the hour ; A modern Dracula ; Who will be next? ; Doctor X ; Butcher paper ; Good riddance ; Mystery man ; Right-hand man ; A new suspect ; The right man? ; That's the man ; Whatever became of Eliot Ness? ; The heat is on ; EN-3 -- Private sector. Social evil ; The old restlessness ; Vote yes for Ness ; Head man Ness ; You should write a book ; Valuable citizen -- Epilogue: A modern myth -- An informal afterword