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American Crime
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Author : Roger Harrington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04-25
American Crime written by Roger Harrington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-25 with Crime categories.
AMERICAN CRIME: Horrific Crimes that Shocked the CountryPassion, insanity, and greed: these motives create crime. Many crimes are quickly forgotten, but there are some crimes from America's past that cannot be so easily shaken. Their stain on the country proves stubborn to this day.. These crimes are still obsessed over and, at times, feel just as horrific as they did when they first happened. Murder, extortion, mystery, gruesome torture, shock, and awe. These are some of the most horrific and prolific crimes in American History.
The Historical Atlas Of American Crime
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Author : Fred Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2005
The Historical Atlas Of American Crime written by Fred Rosen and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Traces the history of crime and punishment from American Colonial times to present day, listing in alphabetical order the states in which the crimes were committed, who committed them and what the punishment was.
American Crime Stories
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
American Crime Stories written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Vulgar Favours
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Author : Maureen Orth
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-10-03
Vulgar Favours written by Maureen Orth and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with True Crime categories.
A true story of dark forces that ended a colourful life. The basis for the Emmy Award winning American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, a 10-part drama series on BBC2, starring Penelope Cruz and Ricky Martin, this is the unforgettable account of a sociopath, his savage crimes, and the devastation he left in his wake. In the glamorous and hedonistic fashion world in the 1990s there was one world-famous name that everyone knew – Gianni Versace. Vulgar Favours details the events that led to his murder at the hands of Andrew Cunanan on July 15th, 1997. Maureen Orth, investigative journalist, was researching an article for Vanity Fair about the Miami Beach serial killer two days before Versace was brutally killed outside his mansion by Cunanan. Drawing on over 400 interviews and thousands of pages of police reports, Orth recounts in gripping detail how Cunanan became one of America's most notorious serial killers, evading the police and leaving his other victims’ families in disarray.
Hardboiled
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Author : Bill Pronzini
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-05-29
Hardboiled written by Bill Pronzini and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-29 with Fiction categories.
What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? "Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex," said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philop Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett's style: "Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it....He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes." Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories never published before in book form. Included are thirty-six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolutiuon of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the Golden Age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1920s, to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: from Hammett's 1925 tour de force "The Scorched Face," in which the disappearance of two sisters leads Hammett's never-named detective, the Continental Op, straight into a web of sexual blackmail amidst the West Coast elite, to Ed Gorman's 1992 "The Long Silence After," a gripping and powerful rendezvous involving a middle class insurance executive, a Chicago streetwalker, and a loaded .38. Other delectable contributions include "Brush Fire" by James M. Cain, author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Raymond Chandler's "I'll Be Waiting," where, for once, the femme fatale is not blond but a redhead, a Ross Macdonald mystery starring Macdonald's most famous creation, the cryptic Lew Archer, and "The Screen Test of Mike Hammer" by the one and only Micky Spillane. The hard-boiled cult has more in common with the legendary lawmen of the Wild West than with the gentleman and lady sleuths of traditional drawing room mysteries, and this direct line of descent is on brilliant display in two of the most subtle and tautly written stories in the collection, Elmore Leonard's "3:10 to Yuma" and John D. MacDonald's "Nor Iron Bars." Other contributors include Evan Hunter (better known as Ed McBain), Jim Thompson, Helen Nielsen, Margaret Maron, Andrew Vachss, Faye Kellerman, and Lawrence Block. Compellingly and compulsively readable, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Containing many notable rarities, it celebrates a genre that has profoundly shaped not only American literature and film, but how we see our heroes and oursleves.
A History Of American Crime Fiction
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Author : Chris Raczkowski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-26
A History Of American Crime Fiction written by Chris Raczkowski and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates generally reserved for canonical literary history. Toward that end, the book is divided into sections that reflect the periods that commonly organize American literary history, with chapters highlighting crime fiction's reciprocal relationships with early American literature, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. It surveys everything from 17th-century execution sermons, the detective fiction of Harriet Spofford and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, to the films of David Lynch, HBO's The Sopranos, and the podcast Serial, while engaging a wide variety of critical methods. As a result, this book expands crime fiction's significance beyond the boundaries of popular genres and explores the symbiosis between crime fiction and canonical literature that sustains and energizes both.
The Cambridge Companion To American Crime Fiction
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Author : Catherine Ross Nickerson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-08
The Cambridge Companion To American Crime Fiction written by Catherine Ross Nickerson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.
The Best American Crime Writing 2005
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Author : James Ellroy
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-03-17
The Best American Crime Writing 2005 written by James Ellroy and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with True Crime categories.
“One of the strengths of this true-crime anthology series comes simply from its astonishing variety . . . it would be tough to better this collection.” —Booklist The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year’s most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman’s article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the coauthor of Freakanomics) about a high-society silver thief, and an extraordinarily memorable “ode to bar fights” written by Jonathan Miles for Men’s Journal after he punched an editor at a staff party. But this year’s edition includes a bonus—an original essay by James Ellroy detailing his fascination with Joseph Wambaugh and how it fed his obsession with crime—even to the point of selling his own blood to buy Wambaugh’s books. Smart, entertaining, and controversial, The Best American Crime Writing is an essential edition to any crime enthusiast’s bookshelf. “Great choices [and] great writing . . . proves truth is indeed stranger than fiction.” —Bloomberg News “Because these well-written articles vary widely, this work should appeal to all true-crime enthusiasts.” —Library Journal “A solid and diverse collection of true-crime writing . . . Anyone interested in true crime should find something to enjoy in this wide-ranging collection.” —Publishers Weekly
100 American Crime Writers
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Author : S. Powell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-08-07
100 American Crime Writers written by S. Powell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.
The Encyclopedia Of American Crime
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Author : Carl Sifakis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Encyclopedia Of American Crime written by Carl Sifakis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Crime categories.