True crime : an American anthology / edited by Harold Schechter.
| Other author | Schechter, Harold. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Library of America, ©2008. |
| Description | xx, 788 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Hanging of John Billington / William Bradford -- Pillars of salt / Cotton Mather -- Murder of a daughter / Benjamin Franklin -- An account of a murder committed by Mr. J-Y-, upon his family, in December, A.D. 1781 / Anonymous -- "A crime more atrocious and horrible than any other" / Timothy Dwight -- Record of crimes in the United States / Jesse Strang -- Recent tragedy / James Gordon Bennett -- "A show of wax-figures" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Remarkable case of arrest for murder / Abraham Lincoln -- Crime news from California / Ambrose Bierce -- From Roughing it / Mark Twain -- Jesse Harding Pomeroy, the boy fiend / Anonymous -- Gibbeted / Lafcadio Hearn -- Memorable murder / Celia Thaxter -- Trial of Guiteau / José Martí -- Murder of Annie Downey, alias "Curly Tom" / Thomas Byrnes -- Hunting human game / Frank Norris -- Hossack murder / Susan Glaspell -- Murder ballads -- Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, murderess / Thomas S. Duke -- Hell benders, or The story of a wayside tavern / Edmund Pearson -- Eternal blonde / Damon Runyon -- From The gangs of New York / Herbert Asbury -- Mystery of the hansom cab / Alexander Woollcott -- |
| Contents | Execution / Joseph Mitchell -- More and better psychopaths / H.L. Mencken -- Dreiser sees error in Edwards defense / Theodore Dreiser -- Sex and the all-American boy / Dorothy Kilgallen -- Miss Ferber views "vultures" at trial / Edna Ferber -- Ditch of doom / Jim Thompson -- A sort of genius / James Thurber -- Veteran kills 12 in mad rampage on Camden Street / Meyer Berger -- Butcher's dozen / John Bartlow Martin -- Case of the scattered Dutchman / A.J. Liebling -- Trial of Ruby McCollum / Zora Neale Hurston -- Black dahlia / Jack Webb -- Life and death of Caryl Chessman / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Shambles of Ed Gein / Robert Bloch -- Superman's crime: Loeb and Leopold / Miriam Allen deFord -- Eight girls, all pretty, all nurses, all slain / W.T. Brannon -- Pied piper of Tucson / Don Moser -- Stranger with a camera / Calvin Trillin -- Charlie Manson's home on the range / Gay Talese -- Then it all came down / Truman Capote -- "Son of Sam" / Jimmy Breslin -- Turner-Stompanato killing: a family affair / Jay Robert Nash -- Medea of Kew Gardens Hills / Albert Borowitz -- My mother's killer / James Ellroy -- Young love / Ann Rule -- Nightmare on Elm Drive / Dominick Dunne. |
| General note | "A special publication of the Library of America." |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 2008927624 |
| ISBN | 9781598530315 |
| ISBN | 1598530313 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | Item has been checked out | PS648.C7 T78 2008 | Due 07/07/2026 | Want This? |