Synopsis: From the back cover of the DAW first edition: "The Kingsbury Run Murders - They were the one real failure in Eliot Ness' crime-fighting career. It began late in the summer of 1935 when part of a human body washed up on the shore of Euclid Beach Park. Over the next four years a dozen more bodies - mutilated, decapitated, and drained of blood - were found along the railroad tracks and waterways of Cleveland, Ohio. With the whole city gripped by terror, safety director Eliot Ness instituted the largest manhunt in Cleveland's history, one that would eventually involve the entire police force. Despite these efforts, only two of the bodies were ever identified and the killer was never found. Or was he? For one member of Cleveland's finest, Detective Stefan Ryzard refused to give up the case. And his search for the truth would send him down a bloody trail that led from the depths of the city's shantytowns to the inner citadels of industrial power to the darkest parts of the human soul..."