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The New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters’s Carr P. Collins Award
One of Book Riot’s Best Books 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
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 4/11/2017
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.6 lbs
Size: 8.2″ H x 5.4″ L x 1″ W
ISBN: 9781250118493
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