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. Over the next four years, twelve more bodies would be scattered across the city. Cleveland’s besieged mayor turned to his newly-appointed director of public safety: Eliot Ness, who had come to Cleveland from Chicago, where he and his band of “Untouchables” led the frontline assault on Al Capone’s bootlegging empire. 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. -- Adapted from Goodreads.