
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...

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


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