The Case of the Vanishing Blonde

<p><b>From Mark Bowden, a "master of narrative journalism" (<i>New York Times</i>), comes a true-crime collection both deeply chilling and impossible to put down.</b></p> <p>Six captivating true-crime stories, spanning Mark Bowden's long and illustrious career, cover a variety of crimes complicated by extraordinary circumstances. Winner of a lifetime achievement award from International Thriller Writers, Bowden revisits in <i>The Case of the Vanishing Blonde</i> some of his most riveting stories and examines the effects of modern technology on the journalistic process.<br> <br> From a story of a campus rape at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 that unleashed a moral debate over the nature of consent when drinking and drugs are involved to three cold cases featuring the inimitable Long Island private detective Ken Brennan and a startling investigation that reveals a murderer within the LAPD's ranks, shielded for twenty six years by officers keen to protect one of their own, these stories are the work of a masterful narrative journalist at work. Gripping true crime from a writer the <i>Washington Post</i> calls "an old pro."</p>