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Horror

The running of beasts

by Bill Pronzini
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Description

THEY ARE DEAD. THEY ARE HIDEOUSLY DEAD. FIVE WOMEN ARE DEAD. A HOMICIDAL MANIAC HAS KILLED FIVE WOMEN. Three down when Ferrara, a psychiatrist, and Valerie Broome, New York feature writer, arrive in the Adirondacks to see when the local Jack the Ripper will kill again. Fatalities and failed assaults ensue. Is it Steven Hook, failed actor, alcoholic, track loser? Or Jack Cross, local newspaperman, with too much mother and a girl who's pregnant? They have their reasons to rage against women...

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
HorrorTerrifying

Details

First published
1976
Pages
316
Reading time
About 6 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Creative Arts Book Company
ISBN
9780887390760
Series
Standalone

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