The Best American Crime Writing 2005
by Thomas H. Cook, Otto Penzler, and James Ellroy
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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.
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Case studies, Crime, Criminals, Crime and the press, Nonfiction, True Crime, Crime, united states, Criminals, united statesPlaces
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The Best American Crime Writing 2005
2009, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
0061842605 9780061842603
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The Best American Crime Writing 2005
September 6, 2005, Harper Perennial
Paperback
in English
0060815515 9780060815516
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The Best American Crime Writing 2005
2005, HarperCollins
Electronic resource
in English
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The Best American Crime Writing 2005 (Best American Crime Writing)
September 6, 2005, Harper Perennial
Paperback
in English
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