True crime : an American anthology /

"Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, and right from the start true crime became a dominant genre in American writing. True Crime: An American Anthology offers the first comprehensive look at the many ways in which America...

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Other Authors: Schechter, Harold (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: New York : Library of America, [2008]
Series:Library of America.
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264 1 |a New York :  |b Library of America,  |c [2008] 
300 |a xx, 788 pages ;  |c 22 cm. 
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500 |a "A special publication of the Library of America." 
500 |a "350 years of brilliant writing about dark deeds"--Jacket. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 775-778) and index. 
505 0 0 |t The hanging of John Billington /  |r William Bradford --  |t Pillars of salt /  |r Cotton Mather --  |t Murder of a daughter /  |r Benjamin Franklin --  |t An account of a murder committed by Mr. J- Y-, upon his family, in December, A.D. 1781 /  |r Anonymous --  |g "A  |t crime more atrocious and horrible than any other" /  |r Timothy Dwight --  |t The record of crimes in the United States /  |r Jesse Strang --  |t The recent tragedy /  |r James Gordon Bennett --  |g "A  |t show of wax-figures" /  |r Nathaniel Hawthorne --  |t Remarkable case of arrest for murder /  |r Abraham Lincoln --  |t Crime news from California /  |r Ambrose Bierce --  |g From  |t Roughing it /  |r Mark Twain --  |t Jesse Harding Pomeroy, the boy fiend /  |r Anonymous --  |t Gibbeted /  |r Lafcadio Hearn --  |t A memorable murder /  |r Celia Thaxter --  |t The trial of Guiteau /  |r José Martí --  |t The murder of Annie Downey, alias "Curly Tom" /  |r Thomas Byrnes --  |t Hunting human game /  |r Frank Norris --  |t The Hossack murder /  |r Susan Glaspell --  |t Murder ballads :  |t Poor Naomi ;  |t Stackalee ;  |t The murder of Grace Brown ;  |t Belle Gunness ;  |t The murder at Fall River ; Trail's end --  |t Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, murderess /  |r Thomas S. Duke --  |t Hell benders,  |g or  |t The story of a wayside tavern /  |r Edmund Pearson --  |t The eternal blonde /  |r Damon Runyon --  |g From  |t The gangs of New York /  |r Herbert Asbury --  |t The mystery of the hansom cab /  |r Alexander Woollcott --  |t Execution /  |r Joseph Mitchell --  |t More and better psychopaths /  |r H.L. Mencken --  |t Dreiser sees error in Edwards defense /  |r Theodore Dreiser --  |t Sex and the all-American boy /  |r Dorothy Kilgallen --  |t Miss Ferber views "vultures" at trial /  |r Edna Ferber --  |t Ditch of doom /  |r Jim Thompson --  |t A sort of genius /  |r James Thurber --  |t Veteran kills 12 in mad rampage on Camden Street /  |r Meyer Berger --  |t Butcher's dozen /  |r John Bartlow Martin --  |t The case of the scattered Dutchman /  |r A.J. Liebling --  |t The trial of Ruby McCollum /  |r Zora Neale Hurston --  |t The Black Dahlia /  |r Jack Webb --  |t The life and death of Caryl Chessman /  |r Elizabeth Hardwick --  |t The shambles of Ed Gein /  |r Robert Bloch --  |t Superman's crime : Loeb and Leopold /  |r Miriam Allen deFord --  |t Eight girls, all pretty, all nurses, all slain /  |r W.T. Brannon --  |t The pied piper of Tucson /  |r Don Moser --  |t A stranger with a camera /  |r Calvin Trillin --  |t Charlie Manson's home on the range /  |r Gay Talese --  |t Then it all came down /  |r Truman Capote --  |t "Son of Sam" /  |r Jimmy Breslin --  |t The Turner-Stompanato killing : a family affair /  |r Jay Robert Nash --  |t The Medea of Kew Gardens Hills /  |r Albert Borowitz --  |t My mother's killer /  |r James Ellroy --  |t Young love /  |r Ann Rule --  |t Nightmare on Elm Drive /  |r Dominick Dunne. 
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