Torso: The Story of Eliot Ness and the Search for a Psychopathic Killer - Hardcover

Nickel, Steven

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089587072X ISBN 13: 9780895870728

Publisher: John F Blair Pub, 1989

Synopsis

Traces the case of Cleveland's "Torso Murderer" of the 1930s, and the attempts of Eliot Ness to find the psychopathic killer

About this title

From Library Journal:

After his "Untouchables" exploits, Eliot Ness became the Cleveland director of public safety in 1934. He launched a mostly successful campaign against crime and corruption, but his record was somewhat marred by a series of gruesome, motiveless murders which were never solved. The "Torso Murderer" was responsible for at least 13 victims--ten never identified and all decapitated and dismembered. Since Ness was not a homicide detective, his Cleveland years are peripheral to the "Torso" case. The latter will be of some interest to crime buffs, but there is just not enough compelling material in this slim volume for a general audience.
- Gregor A. Preston, Univ. of California Lib., Davis
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: John F Blair Pub
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 089587072X
• ISBN 13: 9780895870728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232