| Imprint |
New York : Library of America, c2008 |
| Descript |
xx, 788 p. ; 22 cm |
| Subject |
Crime -- United States
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| Note |
"A special publication of the Library of America." |
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"350 years of brilliant writing about dark deeds"--Jacket |
| 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 -- The record of crimes in the United States / Jesse Strang -- The 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 -- A memorable murder / Celia Thaxter -- The trial of Guiteau / José Martí -- The murder of Annie Downey, alias "Curly Tom" / Thomas Byrnes -- Hunting human game / Frank Norris -- The Hossack murder / Susan Glaspell -- Murder ballads : Poor Naomi ; Stackalee ; The murder of Grace Brown ; Belle Gunness ; The murder at Fall River ; Trail's end -- Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, murderess / Thomas S. Duke -- Hell benders, or The story of a wayside tavern / Edmund Pearson -- The eternal blonde / Damon Runyon -- From The gangs of New York / Herbert Asbury -- The mystery of the hansom cab / Alexander Woollcott -- 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 -- The case of the scattered Dutchman / A.J. Liebling -- The trial of Ruby McCollum / Zora Neale Hurston -- The black dahlia / Jack Webb -- The life and death of Caryl Chessman / Elizabeth Hardwick -- The 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 -- The pied piper of Tucson / Don Moser -- A 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 -- The Turner-Stompanato killing : a family affair / Jay Robert Nash -- The Medea of Kew Gardens Hills / Albert Borowitz -- My mother's killer / James Ellroy -- Young love / Ann Rule -- Nightmare on Elm Drive / Dominick Dunne |
| Note |
Includes index |
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