>The Leopard of Rudraprayag was a male man-eating leopard, reputed to have killed over 125 people.
>The first victim of the leopard was from Benji Village, and was killed in 1918. For the next eight years, people were afraid to venture alone at night on the road between the Hindu shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath, for it passed through the leopard's territory, and few villagers left their houses after dark. The leopard, preferring human flesh, would break down doors, leap through windows, claw through the mud or thatch walls of huts and drag the occupants out before devouring them. According to official records, the leopard killed over 125 people. However, Corbett notes that the number of deaths was probably higher due to unreported kills and deaths due to injuries sustained in attacks.
Been a while since I read the book, but this would make a great triller. A year or so long cat and mouse game in which Jim Corbett, a famed hunter and outdoorsman in colonial british india, is tasked by the indian gvernment to take down a beast that had preyed on hundreds of men over a span of 7 years