Daniel Stashower

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness.

Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run.

On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Cleveland’s Lake Erie: the lower half of a female torso, neatly severed at the waist. The victim, dubbed “The Lady of the Lake,” was only the first of a butcher’s dozen. Over the next four years, twelve more bodies would be scattered across the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of blood. Some were beheaded while still alive.

Terror gripped the city. Amid the growing uproar, Cleveland’s besieged mayor turned to his newly-appointed director of public safety: Eliot Ness. Ness had come to Cleveland fresh from his headline-grabbing exploits in Chicago, where he and his band of “Untouchables” led the frontline assault on Al Capone’s bootlegging empire. Now he would confront a case that would redefine his storied career.

Award-winning author Daniel Stashower shines a fresh light on one of the most notorious puzzles in the annals of crime, and uncovers the gripping story of Ness’s hunt for a sadistic killer who was as brilliant as he was cool and composed, a mastermind who was able to hide in plain sight. American Demon reconstructs this ultimate battle of wits between a hero and a madman

Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

American Demon

Presents the true story of the "Baltimore Plot" conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War, tracing the efforts of detective Allan Pinkerton and private eye Kate Warne to identify and stop the would-be killers.

The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War

The Hour of Peril

Traces the July 1841 murder investigation that was marked by sensational media coverage and the debut of Edgar Allen Poe, whose short stories "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget" associated him with the crime.

Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder

The beautiful cigar girl

Martin Harry Greenberg

Jon L. Lellenberg

A volume of original short works by popular American writers challenges the eminent detective and his faithful sidekick, Watson, against nefarious criminals throughout cases set in such areas as New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.

Sherlock Holmes in America

Martin H. Greenberg

John Lellenberg

Ingeniously contrived and shrewdly executed by some of the finest talents at work in crime fiction today-Anne Perry, Loren Estleman, Gillian Linscott, Edward D. Hoch, Peter Tremayne, Stuart Kaminsky, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Howard Engel, Carolyn Wheat, and L. B. Greenwood-the eleven stories in this premier volume celebrate the keen mind and singular manners of the Great Detective. "This collection is of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf."-Minneapolis Star Tribune "A worthier gift for any mystery aficionado cannot be imagined."-Chicago Sun-Times "Uniformly faithful to the spirit of Doyle's creation."-Publisher's Weekly

New Tales of Sherlock Holmes

Murder in Baker Street

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness...

When Harry Houdini is framed and jailed for espionage, Sherlock Holmes vows to clear his name, with the two joining forces to take on blackmailers who have targeted the Prince of Wales. It's a case that requires all of their skills — both mental and physical. Can the daring duo solve what people are calling “The Crime of the Century”? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes' career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds' greatest detective.

The Ectoplasmic Man

New York City in 1897 and young Harry Houdini is struggling to make it in the brutal entertainment business, when detectives call on him to attempt the most amazing feat of his fledgling career: solve the mystery of a toy tycoon murdered in his posh Fifth Avenue mansion. It's a challenge which Harry - never at a loss for self-confidence - is more than willing to accept.

The Dime Museum Murders

The floating lady murder

More than a hundred years have passed since the creation of Sherlock Holmes, perhaps the most famous fictional character of all time. But while the legendary detective lives on in the popular imagination, the man who created him is often overlooked and frequently misunderstood. This fresh and compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age.

The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

Teller of Tales

Young magician Harry Houdini sees an opportunity to make a name for himself by exposing the tricks of the medium Lucius Craig--but first he must figure out how the medium managed to conjure a "spirit" that stabbed an audience member to death before disappearing.

The Houdini Specter

Edgar Allan Poe and the Murder of Mary Rogers

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Charles Foley

An annotated collection of the esteemed author's private correspondence includes letters shared with his mother that offers insight into his endless search for fulfillment and success outside of the Sherlock Holmes tales, his decision to leave his medical profession to write full time, and his forays into spiritualism. 50,000 first printing.

A Life in Letters

Arthur Conan Doyle

A portrait of Philo T. Farnsworth, the true inventor of television, describes his initial design for the precursor of television at the age of fourteen and his struggle to develop the project without RCA's powerful David Sarnoff.

The Untold Story of Television

The Boy Genius and the Mogul

The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man

Paul Galliard, the son of a famous illusionist killed while performing a trick thirty years before, investigates the present-day deaths of his father's friends.

Elephants in the Distance

On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rog t."

Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

The Beautiful Cigar Girl

The world's greatest detective leaves his native shores and travels to the most dangerous land of all...America!

The second volume of never-before-published Sherlock Holmes stories collects the contributions of great mystery writers to the genre, including Anne Perry, Shayrn McCrumb, Bill Crider, Colin Bruce, Carolyn Wheat, Jon L. Breen, and others, who offer their own interpretations of exploits of the master sleuth. Reprint.

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