The Resource The midnight assassin : the hunt for America's first serial killer, Skip Hollandsworth
The midnight assassin : the hunt for America's first serial killer, Skip Hollandsworth
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The item The midnight assassin : the hunt for America's first serial killer, Skip Hollandsworth represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- "In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders. Along the way, the murders would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Picador edition.
- Extent
- xii, 321 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250118493
- Label
- The midnight assassin : the hunt for America's first serial killer
- Title
- The midnight assassin
- Title remainder
- the hunt for America's first serial killer
- Statement of responsibility
- Skip Hollandsworth
- Title variation
- Hunt for America's first serial killer
- Title variation remainder
- panic, scandal, and the hunt for Americas first serial killer
- Subject
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- trueTrue crime -- Murder
- Serial murders
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders. Along the way, the murders would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life"--
- Summary
- "In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life"--
- Award
- School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2016
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
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- 10480408
- Cataloging source
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- Hollandsworth, Skip
- Dewey number
- 364.152/32092
- Illustrations
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- Index
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- non fiction
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- Serial murders
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- adult
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- panic, scandal, and the hunt for America's first serial killer
- Label
- The midnight assassin : the hunt for America's first serial killer, Skip Hollandsworth
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-308) and index
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- volume
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- ocn945483162
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Picador edition.
- Extent
- xii, 321 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250118493
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- unmediated
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps, portraits
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- (OCoLC)945483162
- Label
- The midnight assassin : the hunt for America's first serial killer, Skip Hollandsworth
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-308) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn945483162
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Picador edition.
- Extent
- xii, 321 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250118493
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)945483162
Subject
- 1800-1899
- trueAdult books for young adults
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- trueSerial murderers
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- Serial murderers -- Texas | Austin -- History -- 19th century
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- Texas -- Austin
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