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"From legendary writer Bill James, in collaboration with his daughter, Rachel, a compelling, dramatic, and meticulously researched narrative about a century-old series of unsolved axe murders across America, and how the authors came to solve them. A hundred years ago, a traveling axe murderer horrified the nation, leaving a ghastly trail from Florida to Washington State and looping back again. He was a very clever fiend, and he'd worked out a method whereby he could murder perhaps a hundred people without being caught. Piecing together information from thousands of sources, baseball writer Bill James set out to create a full picture of what the man had done, and drew up a plan for how the monster might be identified--never really expecting that his plan would work. But it did. Using twenty-first-century research tools beyond the imaginations of people one hundred years ago, James and his coauthor sorted through hundreds of similar cases, compiling a list of thirty-four habits that iden
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