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- NO DUST JACKET
- Country/Region of Manufacture
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- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250118492
ISBN-13
9781250118493
eBay Product ID (ePID)
224465796
Product Key Features
Book Title
Midnight Assassin : the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, United States / 19th Century, Murder / Serial Killers
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Gripping and atmospheric... This true crime page-turner is a balanced and insightful examination of one of the most stirring serial killing sprees in American history, and certainly one of the least well-known. -Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Readers who loved The Devil in the White City now have the pleasure of reading The Midnight Assassin . It paints a compelling portrait of a culture at a turning point - that is, the capitol of Texas at the end of the 19th Century, when the barbarism of the frontier was giving way to the savagery of urban life."- Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Looming Tower and Thirteen Days in September "As a magazine journalist, Skip Hollandsworth has forged a reputation as one of the best storytellers in the country. The Midnight Assassin takes his singular narrative skills to a thrilling new level. Reading this book is like cracking open a time capsule and breathing the air of a vanished era. In Hollandsworth's hands, one of the ghastliest and most inscrutable crimes in American history becomes hair-raisingly immediate, and the mystery at its center grows ever more mysterious with every page."- Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, One of Book Riot 's Best Books of 2016 "Skip Hollandsworth knows his way around a crime scene...Fans of Erik Larson's 2003 hit, The Devil in the White City ...will find similar pleasures here. This is true crime of high quality. . . Mr. Hollandsworth handles gruesome details with a smart, restrained touch...Chilling." -- The New York Times "Gripping and atmospheric...This true crime page-turner is a balanced and insightful examination of one of the most stirring serial killing sprees in American history, and certainly one of the least well-known." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Readers who loved The Devil in the White City now have the pleasure of reading The Midnight Assassin . It paints a compelling portrait of a culture at a turning point - that is, the capitol of Texas at the end of the 19th Century, when the barbarism of the frontier was giving way to the savagery of urban life."-- Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Looming Tower and Thirteen Days in September "As a magazine journalist, Skip Hollandsworth has forged a reputation as one of the best storytellers in the country. The Midnight Assassin takes his singular narrative skills to a thrilling new level. Reading this book is like cracking open a time capsule and breathing the air of a vanished era. In Hollandsworth's hands, one of the ghastliest and most inscrutable crimes in American history becomes hair-raisingly immediate, and the mystery at its center grows ever more mysterious with every page."-- Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln "Skip Hollandsworth has achieved a literary miracle with The Midnight Assassin . With haunting granularity, Hollandsworth breathes vivid life into a forgotten, century-old tale of the hunt for America's first diabolical serial murderer -- set in, of all places, the quaint but upwardly mobile town of Austin, Texas. To read The Midnight Assassin is to experience the lost innocence of a 19th-century capital city set on edge by the unseen monster in its midst."-- Robert Draper, The New York Times Magazine and author of Dead Certain "Skip Hollandsworth, one of the great true-crime writers of our era, has brought his remarkable talent to bear on one of the most fascinating untold criminal stories in American history. The Midnight Assassin captures a time, a place, and a feeling -- booming Texas in the latter 19th century -- in a way no nonfiction account I have read has done. A jewel of a book." --S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell "Skip Hollandsworth has a bloodhound's nose for a great tale. With The Midnight Assassin , he's found the perfect subject for his many talents. Through scrupulous research and a finely tuned sense of the gothic, Hollandsworth has brought this Texas-sized true-crime story, more than a century old, to vivid, chilling life on the page." --Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound On His Trail and In the Kingdom of Ice "As the state of Texas's best-known magazine writer, Skip Hollandsworth is not just a Lone Star treasure, but a national treasure. In this, his first book, he uncovers the amazing untold story of America's first serial killer, a phantom who stalked the streets of Austin in 1885, three years before Jack the Ripper. Whether you love true crime, history or Texana, The Midnight Assassin is bursting at the seams with everything you want in a great book; a spellbinding mix of mystery, horror and historical detective work. It's the book Hollandsworth was born to write.'' --Bryan Burrough, Vanity Fair special correspondent and author of Barbarians at the Gate , Days of Rage and The Big Rich, Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters''s Carr P. Collins Award One of Book Riot ''s Best Books of 2016 "Skip Hollandsworth knows his way around a crime scene...Fans of Erik Larson''s 2003 hit, The Devil in the White City ...will find similar pleasures here. This is true crime of high quality. . . Mr. Hollandsworth handles gruesome details with a smart, restrained touch...Chilling." -- The New York Times "Gripping and atmospheric...This true crime page-turner is a balanced and insightful examination of one of the most stirring serial killing sprees in American history, and certainly one of the least well-known." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Readers who loved The Devil in the White City now have the pleasure of reading The Midnight Assassin . It paints a compelling portrait of a culture at a turning point - that is, the capitol of Texas at the end of the 19th Century, when the barbarism of the frontier was giving way to the savagery of urban life."-- Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Looming Tower and Thirteen Days in September "As a magazine journalist, Skip Hollandsworth has forged a reputation as one of the best storytellers in the country. The Midnight Assassin takes his singular narrative skills to a thrilling new level. Reading this book is like cracking open a time capsule and breathing the air of a vanished era. In Hollandsworth''s hands, one of the ghastliest and most inscrutable crimes in American history becomes hair-raisingly immediate, and the mystery at its center grows ever more mysterious with every page."-- Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln "Skip Hollandsworth has achieved a literary miracle with The Midnight Assassin . With haunting granularity, Hollandsworth breathes vivid life into a forgotten, century-old tale of the hunt for America''s first diabolical serial murderer -- set in, of all places, the quaint but upwardly mobile town of Austin, Texas. To read The Midnight Assassin is to experience the lost innocence of a 19th-century capital city set on edge by the unseen monster in its midst."-- Robert Draper, The New York Times Magazine and author of Dead Certain "Skip Hollandsworth, one of the great true-crime writers of our era, has brought his remarkable talent to bear on one of the most fascinating untold criminal stories in American history. The Midnight Assassin captures a time, a place, and a feeling -- booming Texas in the latter 19th century -- in a way no nonfiction account I have read has done. A jewel of a book." --S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell "Skip Hollandsworth has a bloodhound''s nose for a great tale. With The Midnight Assassin , he''s found the perfect subject for his many talents. Through scrupulous research and a finely tuned sense of the gothic, Hollandsworth has brought this Texas-sized true-crime story, more than a century old, to vivid, chilling life on the page." --Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound On His Trail and In the Kingdom of Ice "As the state of Texas''s best-known magazine writer, Skip Hollandsworth is not just a Lone Star treasure, but a national treasure. In this, his first book, he uncovers the amazing untold story of America''s first serial killer, a phantom who stalked the streets of Austin in 1885, three years before Jack the Ripper. Whether you love true crime, history or Texana, The Midnight Assassin is bursting at the seams with everything you want in a great book; a spellbinding mix of mystery, horror and historical detective work. It''s the book Hollandsworth was born to write.'''' --Bryan Burrough, Vanity Fair special correspondent and author of Barbarians at the Gate , Days of Rage and The Big Rich, "Skip Hollandsworth knows his way around a crime scene...Fans of Erik Larson's 2003 hit, The Devil in the White City ...will find similar pleasures here. This is true crime of high quality. . . Mr. Hollandsworth handles gruesome details with a smart, restrained touch...Chilling." -- The New York Times "Gripping and atmospheric...This true crime page-turner is a balanced and insightful examination of one of the most stirring serial killing sprees in American history, and certainly one of the least well-known." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Readers who loved The Devil in the White City now have the pleasure of reading The Midnight Assassin . It paints a compelling portrait of a culture at a turning point - that is, the capitol of Texas at the end of the 19th Century, when the barbarism of the frontier was giving way to the savagery of urban life."-- Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Looming Tower and Thirteen Days in September "As a magazine journalist, Skip Hollandsworth has forged a reputation as one of the best storytellers in the country. The Midnight Assassin takes his singular narrative skills to a thrilling new level. Reading this book is like cracking open a time capsule and breathing the air of a vanished era. In Hollandsworth's hands, one of the ghastliest and most inscrutable crimes in American history becomes hair-raisingly immediate, and the mystery at its center grows ever more mysterious with every page."-- Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln "Skip Hollandsworth has achieved a literary miracle with The Midnight Assassin . With haunting granularity, Hollandsworth breathes vivid life into a forgotten, century-old tale of the hunt for America's first diabolical serial murderer -- set in, of all places, the quaint but upwardly mobile town of Austin, Texas. To read The Midnight Assassin is to experience the lost innocence of a 19th-century capital city set on edge by the unseen monster in its midst."-- Robert Draper, The New York Times Magazine and author of Dead Certain "Skip Hollandsworth, one of the great true-crime writers of our era, has brought his remarkable talent to bear on one of the most fascinating untold criminal stories in American history. The Midnight Assassin captures a time, a place, and a feeling -- booming Texas in the latter 19th century -- in a way no nonfiction account I have read has done. A jewel of a book." --S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell "Skip Hollandsworth has a bloodhound's nose for a great tale. With The Midnight Assassin , he's found the perfect subject for his many talents. Through scrupulous research and a finely tuned sense of the gothic, Hollandsworth has brought this Texas-sized true-crime story, more than a century old, to vivid, chilling life on the page." --Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound On His Trail and In the Kingdom of Ice "As the state of Texas's best-known magazine writer, Skip Hollandsworth is not just a Lone Star treasure, but a national treasure. In this, his first book, he uncovers the amazing untold story of America's first serial killer, a phantom who stalked the streets of Austin in 1885, three years before Jack the Ripper. Whether you love true crime, history or Texana, The Midnight Assassin is bursting at the seams with everything you want in a great book; a spellbinding mix of mystery, horror and historical detective work. It's the book Hollandsworth was born to write.'' --Bryan Burrough, Vanity Fair special correspondent and author of Barbarians at the Gate , Days of Rage and The Big Rich
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
364.152/32092
Table Of Content
Prologue 1 "A killer who gives to history a new story of crime." PART ONE 7 December 1884-April 1885 "Doctor Steiner reports a woman lying near Ravy's." PART TWO 67 April 1885-August 1885 "Who was it? Who did this to you?" PART THREE 107 September 1885-Christmas Day 1885 "A woman has been chopped to pieces! It's Mrs. Hancock! On Water Street!" PART FOUR 153 December 26, 1885-January 1886 "The whole city is arming. If this thing is not stopped soon, several corpses will be swinging from the tree limbs." PART FIVE 195 February 1886-May 1888 "A prominent State officer and an active candidate for the Governorship of Texas . . . knows something about Eula Phillips' murder." PART SIX 229 September 1888-August 1996 "I would suggest that the same hand that committed the Whitechapel murders committed the Texas murders." EPILOGUE 259 "If no one could catch the killer back when he was alive, what makes you think you can catch him now?" Notes and Sources 271 Bibliography 297 Acknowledgments 309 Illustration Credits 311 Index 313
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
HV6534.A8H65 2017
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- v***m (141)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItems arrived inn the described condition. They were well packaged and were priced decently. Communication never occurred. Shipping was slow, though. Would buy from again as long as I didn't need it in a hurry.
- l***t (221)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseMy book was well packed and I thought that the shipping costs were reasonable. The dust jacket was actually in better condition than I thought it would be based on the description, so I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the package. I thought the price was reasonable for a hardback book. I would purchase from this seller again.The Beloved Invader by Eugenia Price - 1965, 1st Edition, 9th Printing Hardcover (#315075713581)
- 0***h (2082)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat item. Just as pictured and described. We actually visited the castle in August of 1984. Item was well packed and shipped promptly. Good seller to deal with.