The Best American Crime Writing 2006 |
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| Authors: | Bowden, Mark & Cook, Thomas H. & Penzler, Otto |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins e-books |
| BISAC/Subject: | BIO024000, TRU000000, LAW026000 |
| ISBN: | 9780061844751, Related ISBNs: 0061844756, 9780060815523, 9780061844751 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 352, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:
Jeffrey Toobin's eye-opening exposé in The New Yorker about a famous prosecutor who may have put the wrong man on death row
Skip Hollandsworth's amazing but true tale of an old cowboy bank robber who turned out to be a "classic good-hearted Texas woman"
Jimmy Breslin's stellar piece about the end of the Mob as we know it
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