True crime : an American anthology
Record details
- ISBN: 9781598530315
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Physical Description:
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xx, 788 p. ; 22 cm. - Publisher: [New York, NY] : Library of America, c2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A special publication of the Library of America." "350 years of brilliant writing about dark deeds"--Jacket. Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- |
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Subject: | Crime -- United States Violent crimes -- United States Murder -- United States |
Genre: | True crime stories. |
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