The midnight assassin : panic, scandal, and the hunt for America's first serial killer
Item details
- ISBN: 9780805097672
- ISBN: 0805097678
- ISBN: 9780805097689
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Physical Description:
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xii, 321 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2015
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Maps on lining papers. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-308) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "A killer who gives to history a new story of crime" -- December 1884-April 1885. "Doctor Steiner reports a woman lying near Ravy's" -- April 1885-August 1885. "Who was it? Who did this to you?" -- September 1885-Christmas Day 1885. "A woman has been chopped to pieces! It's Mrs. Hancock! On Water Street!" -- December 26, 1885-January 1886. "The whole city is arming. If this thing is not stopped soon, several corpses will be swinging from the tree limbs" -- February 1886-May 1888. "A prominent State officer and an active candidate for the Governorship of Texas ... knows something about Eula Phillips' murder" -- September 1888-August 1996. "I would suggest that the same hand that committed the Whitechapel murders committed to Texas murders" -- "If no one could catch the killer back when he was alive, what makes you think you can catch him now?" |
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Genre: | History. True crime stories. History. True crime stories. |
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Flint River Regional Library System: Peachtree City Library |
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