- Taschenbuch: 232 Seiten
- Verlag: Blair; Auflage: New edition (September 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0895872463
- ISBN-13: 978-0895872463
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,4 x 15,9 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 903.160 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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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. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Gregor A. Preston, Univ. of California Lib., Davis
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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In the 1920s, Eliot Ness gained fame as the leader of the Untouchables, a small band of law-enforcement agents who disrupted the activities of Al Capone and his organization. By 1934, Ness had moved to Cleveland to become director of public safety. But it was there that he met his nemesis in the form of a serial killer. When Ness arrived in Cleveland, he quickly made his presence felt with a major overhaul of the police force and zealous raids to stop illegal gambling. Despite these early successes and some 2,400 officers at his disposal, Ness failed in his efforts to find the lone psychopathic killer whose trademark decapitations terrorized the entire city. Many of the 12 known victims were residents of hobo jungles and were so anonymous that only three of them were even positively identified. In 1942, the killings stopped as mysteriously as they had begun in 1935. But the damage to Ness's reputation as a guardian of law and order was already done, and the stage was set for the downhill slide in his life.
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A surprising book!,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Torso: The Story of Eliot Ness and the Search for a Psychopathic Killer (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Thinking I'd purchased simply a true crime book, I was astonished to find that this book weaves the later career of Eliot Ness with politics in Cleveland in the l930's and 1940's with the unkown identity of a gruesome serial killer at that time. The author's sense of time and place is terrific. I was swept back to that time in history, almost against my will. And I found this to be far more horrifying a book than it appears. When I was two-thirds of the way done, I found that I absolutely had to close and lock my bedroom window. These crimes may have been committed before I was born, but they're still shocking and terrifying. See if you agree with me that Eliot Ness's take on who committed these crimes is the right one! Horrifying, historical, accurate, mesmerizing, all at once. I recommend it to anyone interested in terrific reading.
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TRUTH IS SCARIER THAN FICTION,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Torso: The Story of Eliot Ness and the Search for a Psychopathic Killer (Gebundene Ausgabe)
The scariest true crime story ever written , you may find yourself sleeping with the lights on , or looking out the window before you hit the sack , but don't miss this one , for an interesting look at serial murder in the early part of the century in America , and law enforcement's baffle with the unknown , heads will roll.
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yikes,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Torso: The Story of Eliot Ness and the Search for a Psychopathic Killer (Gebundene Ausgabe)
I've read a lot of true crime books, and this book is absolutely the creepiest among them. That the killer (who was never caught) is long since dead wasn't much comfort to me at bedtime. And to think he left a victim or two in my own city! If you like good creepy true crime accounts, I recommend this book without hesitation.
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