I'm reading The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi, an account of the decades-long search for Italy's most famous serial killer. It's more interesting than Shake The Devil Off and not nearly as offensive (possibly only because I'm not from Florence), but if even a tenth of this tale is true, then poor fictional Rinaldo Pazzi's hunt for Il Mostro in Thomas Harris' Hannibal was a model of simplicity, elegance, and textbook police work compared to the real case. On the other ...
Published on January 12, 2010 07:43