Author : Daniel Stashower
Genre : True Crime
NetGalley ARC
Publication: September 6,2022
Pages 352
Rating : 4
Would I recommend it ? Yes
Would I read more by this author? Yes
Like always a big thank you to the publisher St. Martin's, the author Daniel Stashower and to NetGalley for letting me read and review American Demon. For those who don't knew I love nonfiction especially true crime , and when I saw that that St.Martin's had this on NetGalley to request I was couldn't say no , the title as well as the cover got me, and I was so glad they said yes. Because of 2 things , one I no idea who Eliot Ness was and the other was I knew non thing about the case . So after I requested it I went to look up Eliot Ness and found out that he was the leader of the police group known as the Untouchables ( those I did know some what about as well as the famous mob leader AL Capone - thanks to growing up watch old mob movies with my dad) but as for Eliot Ness - no thing at all , because it was like you never heard of him been talked about like you do Al Capone . So I was going in to this one blind and I'm glad that I did. The author brings to life what life was like in that time as well as the life and times of Eliot Ness, how the Untouchables came to be and who they were, Al Capon and how he mob worked , and of cause the murders of the American Jack the Ripper , the author tells the story in such a away that its like its more of a movie then a book , and you don't get lost in the information she tells.
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 carpenter named Frank La Gassie 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 victim, dubbed “The Lady of the Lake,” was only the first of a butcher’s dozen. Over the next four years, twelve more bodies would be scattered across the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of blood. Some were beheaded while still alive.
Terror gripped the city. Amid the growing uproar, Cleveland’s besieged mayor turned to his newly-appointed director of public safety: Eliot Ness. Famous for busting Al Capone and his bootleg empire in Chicago, Ness now confronted a case that would redefine his storied career.
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