The New York Times –bestselling true crime story of the notorious American serial killer. They smelled the foul odors. They heard the power saw buzzing in the dead of night but neighbors never imagined the horrors happening right next door. Tenants of the Oxford Apartments would never forget the hot sultry night of July 22, 1991. A panic-stricken young man—a pair of handcuffs still dangling from his wrists—ran out of Apartment 213 and told police an incredible tale of terror. Shaking with fear, he led officers back to his captor's lair, where they made the gruesome discovery. Inside were the body parts of at least fifteen men—including torsos stuffed into a barrel, severed heads in a refrigerator, and skulls boiled clean and stashed in a filing cabinet. Tacked to the freezer were Polaroid photographs of mutilated corpses. When investigators arrested 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer, they realized they had stumbled onto a "real-life Hannibal Lecter"—a sadistic murderer who told them he had saved a human heart "to eat later." What could turn a handsome, former tennis player, the son of middle-class parents, into a perverse serial killer whose unthinkable acts shocked the nation? The Jeffrey Dahmer Story takes you into Jeffrey Dahmer's twisted world of bizarre sexual encounters, mutilation and cannibalism—in one of history's most appalling true crime cases. With eight pages of chilling photographs. Previously published as The Milwaukee Murders .

ドン・デイヴィスが描くのは、単なる猟奇事件の記録ではありません。中流家庭で育った美青年がいかにして食人の怪物へと変貌したのか。本作は、清潔感のある外見と凄惨な行為というあまりに深い乖離を、冷徹かつ情感豊かに描き出しています。その緻密な筆致は、読者の倫理観を執拗に揺さぶり、人間の深淵を覗き込むような戦慄を呼び起こすのです。 隣室から漏れる異臭や異音といった日常の断片を、底知れぬ恐怖の予兆として描写する手法も見事です。都会の片隅で看過され続けた「密室の惨劇」を浮き彫りにし、現代社会の隙間に潜む孤独と狂気の輪郭を鋭く定義してみせる。そのジャーナリスティックな視点こそが、実録犯罪記を超えた本作の文学的真骨頂と言えるでしょう。