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Butcher's Dozen Title: Butcher's Dozen
Release: October, 1988
ISBN: 0-786-21662-X (1998 Hardcover), 0-553-26151-7 (1988 Paperback)
Publisher: Fivestar Press (Hardcover), Bantam (Paperback)

Summary

The real story of crime-fighting 'Untouchable' Eliot Ness.

Television and movies have long glorified Eliot Ness, the real-life Federal agent who became a legend when he brought down Al Capone.  But Ness has never been realistically portrayed until now.

Two-time Shamus winner Max Allan Collins shows an older Ness, now working out of Cleveland, Ohio in 1935, confronting one of the most baffling cases in American true-crime history . . . the famous Torso slayings.

Here you'll find Collins at his absolute best depicting Ness as a complex public servant who often went about solving his cases in ways that sparked bitter controversy.

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