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The Midnight Assassin

By - Hollandsworth, Skip
Floor - Floor 1
Published - Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2015
ISBN 10 - 1250118492
ISBN 13 - 9781250118493
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Serial murderers
Shelf No - 19
Call Number - 364.1523 HOL
Physical Description - xii, 321 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Book Information
Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Carr P. Collins Award A New York Times Bestseller One of Book Riot Best Book of the Year In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized the city in what would soon become a story more shocking than any fiction. In the late 1800s, just as Austin was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis, a series of brutal murders rocked the burgeoning city and shook it to its core. At the time, the concept of a serial killer was unknown and unimaginable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens’ panic reached a fever pitch. For more than a decade, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth has researched this gripping tale of murder and madness that plays out like a well-crafted whodunit. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Hollandsworth's The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial Killer brings this terrifying saga to life.

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