The Best American Crime Writing 2005
367 pages2005Harper PerennialISBN 9780060815516
Case studiesCrimeCriminalsCrime and the pressNonfictionTrue CrimeCrime, united statesCriminals, united states
About this book
<p>The 2005 edition of <b>The Best American Crime Writing</b> 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 <b>Freakanomics</b>) 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, <b>The Best American Crime Writing</b> is an essential edition to any crime enthusiast's bookshelf.</p>
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 367
- ISBN
- 9780060815516
- Language
- en
About Unknown Author
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels *The Black Dahlia* (1987), *The Big Nowhere* (1988), *L.A. Confidential* (1990), *White Jazz* (1992), *American Tabloid* (1995), *The Cold Six Thousand* (2001), and *Blood's a Rover* (2009). *-- Wikipedia*
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