The running of beasts Hardcover – January 1, 1976
by Bill Pronzini  (Author)
 
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…
 
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