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True crime : an American anthology
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- 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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- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Terrace Public Library | 364.15 Tru (Text) | 35151000054510 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aExecution / 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. |
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