The Best True Crime Writing from the Greatest Chroniclers of Murder.
In this book, Jonathan Goodman has brought together over 35 accounts of some of the most notorious true murder cases in history, covering a variety of different aspects and styles of true crime writing.
Includes:
- An analysis of Mark Chapman's murder of John Lennon
- Remarkable eyewitness accounts of executions, including contributions by William Makepeace Thackeray and AE Housman
- An in-depth study of the business methods of Al Capone
- The pathologist's account of the Dennis Nilsen case
- Edmund Pearson' classic essay 'Rules For Murderesses'
- Walt Whitman's description of the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865
- Damon Runyon's report of a gangster trial for a New York newspaper
This collection is an essential addition to the library of any true crime enthusiast.
