Kevin's Reviews > Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology

Did you know that there was more to Treasury Agent Eliot Ness and his crime fighting career than his exploits in Chicago which led to the downfall of Al Capone? No? Well neither did I. Turns out there was more. Much more. And it centered around his move to Cleveland and his hunt for a serial killer that happened at the same time he tried to reform the city’s dreadful law enforcement agency.

Problem is that while this book promises a hunt for a serial killer, I felt that it played second or even third fiddle to stories about other crimes and problems within the law enforcement world in what was once the seventh largest city in the U.S. In all honesty, the serial killer hunt, that was never solved, seemed all but forgotten by about the 65% point in the book. Or at least it seemed that way to me. And what made up the rest of the narrative just couldn’t hold my interest.