DANIEL STASHOWER is a New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed biographer and narrative historian, and winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Anthony awards, and the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, AARP: The Magazine, and National Geographic Traveler as well as other publications. His books include The Hour of Peril, Teller of Tales, and The Beautiful Cigar Girl.
"An iconic police investigator on the hunt for a grisly murderer.
Put that on a double bill. I'll go make the popcorn." -Patton
Oswalt, The New York Times
"Mr. Stashower spins a seamless narrative of the grisly crime wave
filled with vivid detail." -The Wall Street Journal "Stashower
provides shrewd analysis and paints each scene with vivid, macabre
details. You'll sweat reading it." -The Washington Post "Hang on
for the ride...[American Demon] places you right on the scene,
describing the ghastly horrors of [America's] Jack the Ripper while
also recounting how crime fighter Eliot Ness started piecing the
investigation together, one puzzle piece at a time." --Forbes
"American Demon, beyond its contributions to the genre of American
crime non-fiction, humanizes Ness and provides an honest portrayal
of a complex man and the true stories that have cemented his place
in history." --Fulbright Chronicles "Annals of true crime rarely
are as good as American Demon...No spoilers here, but only our
strong recommendation: American Demon is worth seeking out and
reading to reach your own conclusions." --AirMail "The combination
of a baffling unsolved crime with a nuanced portrayal of an
American icon adds up to another winner for this talented author."
-Publishers Weekly (starred)
"[Stashower] deftly sets Ness' battles against institutional
antagonists against an engagingly told, suspenseful account of the
search for a notorious killer...riveting and illuminating." -Kirkus
Reviews (starred) "This account is a gripping true-crime thriller
that paints a picture of Ness that's significantly different from
the version we've seen in The Untouchables...True-crime fans will
want this one on their TBR lists." --Booklist "[Stashower's]
personal connection to the city breathes life into the
well-researched and chilling account." -Library Journal
"Stashower's portrait of Ness is layered and he vividly re-creates
a broken system." -Minneapolis Star Tribune "For historical crime,
Stashower is unparalleled."--Akron Beacon Journal
"A jaunty, fast-moving true-crime adventure." -The Columbus
Dispatch "Nicely crafted, the book will appeal to hard-core Ness
fans and true-crime freaks." -New York Journal of Books "Edgar
Award-winner Stashower (The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to
Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War) approaches this material with
a pit bull's tenacity, and he writes with the steeliness of an
old-school journalist, suiting the book's place and time... a
thrillingly bedeviling true crime story interlaced with a nuanced
character study--not of the criminal but of his flawed pursuer."
-Shelf Awareness "Daniel Stashower has a gift for peering into the
dark, shadowy corners of American history and unearthing its most
chilling and fascinating tales. American Demon is a twisting,
true-life murder mystery about a serial killer who terrified a
nation in the throes of the Great Depression--and his nemesis,
famed lawman Eliot Ness, who was battling demons of his own.
Stashower deftly fuses meticulous research with nail-biting
storytelling to give this narrative history all the thrills of the
best crime fiction." --Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling
author (as Karen Abbott) of The Ghosts of Eden Park "The legendary
Eliot Ness on the trail of a diabolical serial killer--a Hannibal
Lecter running loose at the height of the Great Depression. And
it's all true. When it comes to historical crime nonfiction,
Stashower is untouchable." --Harlan Coben, New York Times
bestselling author of Win "Dan Stashower brings both the novelist's
pen and the historian's eye to throw new light on one of history's
most baffling cold cases." -Donna Andrews, New York Times
bestselling author of Murder Most Fowl "Iconic lawman Eliot Ness is
well known for his first act: helping to bust Al Capone, together
with his intrepid band of Untouchables. With American Demon, Daniel
Stashower takes a deep and fascinating dive into Ness's even more
intriguing second act: as Depression era safety commissioner of
Cleveland, where he battled rampant corruption and led the hunt for
a bizarre and baffling serial killer. Bringing the character and
times to vivid life, Stashower once again makes an important
contribution to the annals of American crime." --Mark Olshaker,
coauthor of Mindhunter, The Cases That Haunt Us, and The Killer
Across the Table "American Demon is a swirl of today's obsessions
in a story of our yesterdays. The book has it all: Serial killers.
American hero cops. Media frenzies. Politics. Romance. And it's all
character-driven by the real life legendary figure of Eliot Ness
from TV and book fame on the track of a monster. American Demon
goes beyond a fascinating true crime story to a suspenseful
revelation of our American realities." --James Grady, creator of
Condor and author of This Train
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