The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial Killer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250118493)

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.

Author: Skip Hollandsworth
ISBN-10: 1250118492
ISBN-13: 9781250118493
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 04/11/2017
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d