The Michigan Murders by Edward Keyes [FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION / 1976]

The Michigan Murders by Edward Keyes

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1976] READERS DIGEST PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. 

Dust jacket is in nice shape; vibrant with some edge wear and discoloration to front and rear panels. 

Book itself looks great;  red leatherette cover looks new with an attractive gilded spine.   Pages smell a bit musty.   Initials written across the top edge of text block [see last photo.]

Edgar Award Finalist: The terrifying true story of savage murders, a terrorized midwestern town, and the serial killer who could have lived next door

In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body—stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm—was discovered, partially buried, on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan Schell was found, similarly violated. Southeastern Michigan was terrorized by something it had never experienced before: a serial killer. Over the next two years, five more bodies were uncovered around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. All the victims were tortured and mutilated. All were female students.
 
After multiple failed investigations, a chance sighting finally led to a suspect. On the surface, John Norman Collins was an all-American boy—a fraternity member studying elementary education at Eastern Michigan University. But Collins wasn’t all that he seemed.   Written by the coauthor of The French Connection, The Michigan Murders delivers a harrowing depiction of the savage murders that tormented a small midwestern town.