The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting

Author:   Otto Penzler ,  Thomas H. Cook ,  Thomas H. Cook
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Edition:   2003 ed.
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9780375713019


Pages:   512
Publication Date:   19 August 2003
Format:   Paperback
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"The year's best true crime reporting from the U.S.A. This year's worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute - in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation containing the best examples of the most current and vibrant of our literary traditions- crime reporting. Included in this volume are Maximillian Potter's ""The Body Farm"" from GQ, a portrait of Murray Marks, who collects dead bodies and strews them around two acres of the University of Tennessee campus to study their decomposition in order to help solve crime; Jay Kirk's ""My Undertaker, My Pimp,"" from Harper's, in which Mack Moore and his wife, Angel, switch from running crooked funeral parlors to establishing a brothel; Skip Hollandsworth's ""The Day Treva Throneberry Disappeared"" from Texas Monthly, about the sudden disappearence of a teenager and the strange place she turned up; Lawrence Wright's ""The Counterterrorist"" from The New Yorker, the story of John O'Neill, the FBI agent who tracked Osama bin Laden for a decade-until he was killed when the World Trade Center collapsed. Intriguing, entertaining, and compelling reading, BEST AMERICAN CRIME WRITING has established itself as a much-anticipated annual."

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Author:   Otto Penzler ,  Thomas H. Cook ,  Thomas H. Cook
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Vintage Books
Edition:   2003 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 13.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.357kg
ISBN:  

9780375713019


ISBN 10:   0375713018
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   19 August 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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An artful mix of the political, the odd, the macabre, and the downright brilliant... The entire collection is an even mix of 'why didn't I clip that?' and 'how did I miss that?' Avid true-crime readers, take note. -Entertainment Weekly Compelling, well written . . . a riveting collection. -The Boston Sunday Globe Jammed with good prose, fascinating stories and probing investigative work . . . all first rate. . . . 'Best' really belongs in the title. -Star Tribune


An artful mix of the political, the odd, the macabre, and the downright brilliant... The entire collection is an even mix of 'why didn't I clip that?' and 'how did I miss that?' Avid true-crime readers, take note. - Entertainment Weekly <br> Compelling, well written . . . a riveting collection. - The Boston Sunday Globe <br> Jammed with good prose, fascinating stories and probing investigative work . . . all first rate. . . . 'Best' really belongs in the title. - Star Tribune


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"Thomas H. Cook is the author of eighteen books, including two works of true crime. His novels have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Macavity Award and the Dashiell Hammett Prize. The Chatham School Affair won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1996. His true crime book, Blood Echoes, was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1992, and his story ""Fatherhood"" won the Herodotus Prize in 1998 and was included in Best Mystery Stories of 1998, edited by Otto Penzler and Ed McBain. His works have been translated into fifteen languages. Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and the Ellery Queen Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the series editor of The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year. His other anthologies include Murder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. He wrote 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery & Suspense. He lives in New York City. John Berendt is the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil which spent four years on the New York Times Bestseller list. He has been the editor of New York magazine and an Esquire columnist. He lives in New York."

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