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American Crime Stories
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language : en
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Release Date : 1998
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American Crime Stories
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language : en
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Release Date : 2008
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American Crime Stories
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Author : John Escott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
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'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis's girlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will?These seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard, will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Twelve American Crime Stories
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Author : Rosemary Herbert
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
Twelve American Crime Stories written by Rosemary Herbert and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
Featuring distinctly American language and locales, the stories in this collection range from those with a strongly regional flavor to hard-boiled fiction. "Twelve American Crime Stories" includes the best of the genre and is a delightful guide to who did what to whom, and how.
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.
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.
American Crime Stories
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Author : Armin Arnold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
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American Crime Stories Oxford Bookworms Library6 Book Tape
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Author : RETOLD BY JOHN ESCOTT
language : ko
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-06-01
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American Crime Stories Volume 2
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Author : Roger Harrington
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-05-08
American Crime Stories Volume 2 written by Roger Harrington and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with categories.
AMERICAN CRIME STORIES VOLUME 2: Innocent and Conviction - 2 Books in 1Featuring... *Innocent*Conviction 2 Great Books in 1! Innocent Statistics show that no less than 4 percent of those that are on death row today are innocent. In the first study of its kind, a team concluded that out of the 8000 men and women who have been sentenced to death row since the 1970s, at least 200of those were innocent. The numbers, of course, are very conservative. However, the number shows that it is possible that there have been more than 200 people put to death for crimes that they have never committed and the real criminal went unpunished. This is a very disturbing statistic because it proves that despite our best efforts to prove that justice is served, a large number of innocent people have been put to death. Conviction In 2007, the murder of Meredith Kercher inItaly was one of the most high profile cases in the past few decades. The young British exchange student had been killed by an unknown perpetrator while studying abroad, and for many years, the main suspect in the investigation was her roommate - Amanda Knox. Knox was eventually imprisoned for her roommate's mysterious death, serving several years in prison for a crime she was tenuously linked to. In 2015, it became clear that Amanda Knox had no involvement whatsoever in Meredith Kercher's death. DNA evidence proved that her murder was carried out at the hands of another suspect entirely. Despite what the media, law enforcement and the general public strongly believed for almost a decade - they were all incorrect. In 1993, three small boys from the West Memphis area of Arkansas went out to play on their bicycles in their neighborhood. The same day, all three boys were found dead in a local wooded area. Authorities immediately pinned the blame on three local teenage boys: Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelly and Jason Baldwin - more famously known as the West Memphis Three...
Hard Boiled Sentimentality
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Author : Leonard Cassuto
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2009
Hard Boiled Sentimentality written by Leonard Cassuto and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Education categories.
Leonard Cassuto's cultural history of the hard-boiled crime genre recovers the fascinating link between tough guys and sensitive women