ISBN: 1598530313

Description: xx, 788 pages ; 22 cm.

Notes:

• "A special publication of the Library of America."
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 775-778) and index.

Contents:

• 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.

LCCN: 000034481649

Control Number: 165102

Series:

• Library of America
• Library of America.

Subjects:

• Crime -- United States -- Case studies.
• True crime stories.

Genre:

• Case studies.
• Fiction.

Other Authors: Schechter, Harold.