The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer

by Skip Hollandsworth

Book Overview

A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805097678
• ISBN13: 9780805097672
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"