True crime : an American anthology /

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Outros autores: Schechter, Harold.
Formato: Libro
Idioma:English
Publicado: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.