True crime : an American anthology /
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New York :
Library of America,
[2008], ©2008.
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Table of 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.