Bibliograph

True crime, an American anthology, edited by Harold Schechter

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Label

True crime, an American anthology, edited by Harold Schechter

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

True crime

Oclc number

223800861

Responsibility statement

edited by Harold Schechter

Sub title

an American anthology

Table Of Contents

Hanging of John Billington / William Bradford -- Pillars of salt / Cotton Mather -- Murder of a daughter / Benjamin Franklin -- An account of a murder committed by Mr. J-Y-, upon his family, in December, A.D. 1781 / Anonymous -- "A crime more atrocious and horrible than any other" / Timothy Dwight -- Record of crimes in the United States / Jesse Strang -- Recent tragedy / James Gordon Bennett -- "A show of wax-figures" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Remarkable case of arrest for murder / Abraham Lincoln -- Crime news from California / Ambrose Bierce -- From Roughing it / Mark Twain -- Jesse Harding Pomeroy, the boy fiend / Anonymous -- Gibbeted / Lafcadio Hearn -- Memorable murder / Celia Thaxter -- Trial of Guiteau / José Martí -- Murder of Annie Downey, alias "Curly Tom" / Thomas Byrnes -- Hunting human game / Frank Norris -- Hossack murder / Susan Glaspell -- Murder ballads -- Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, murderess / Thomas S. Duke -- Hell benders, or The story of a wayside tavern / Edmund Pearson -- Eternal blonde / Damon Runyon -- From The gangs of New York / Herbert Asbury -- Mystery of the hansom cab / Alexander Woollcott --Execution / Joseph Mitchell -- More and better psychopaths / H.L. Mencken -- Dreiser sees error in Edwards defense / Theodore Dreiser -- Sex and the all-American boy / Dorothy Kilgallen -- Miss Ferber views "vultures" at trial / Edna Ferber -- Ditch of doom / Jim Thompson -- A sort of genius / James Thurber -- Veteran kills 12 in mad rampage on Camden Street / Meyer Berger -- Butcher's dozen / John Bartlow Martin -- Case of the scattered Dutchman / A.J. Liebling -- Trial of Ruby McCollum / Zora Neale Hurston -- Black dahlia / Jack Webb -- Life and death of Caryl Chessman / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Shambles of Ed Gein / Robert Bloch -- Superman's crime: Loeb and Leopold / Miriam Allen deFord -- Eight girls, all pretty, all nurses, all slain / W.T. Brannon -- Pied piper of Tucson / Don Moser -- Stranger with a camera / Calvin Trillin -- Charlie Manson's home on the range / Gay Talese -- Then it all came down / Truman Capote -- "Son of Sam" / Jimmy Breslin -- Turner-Stompanato killing: a family affair / Jay Robert Nash -- Medea of Kew Gardens Hills / Albert Borowitz -- My mother's killer / James Ellroy -- Young love / Ann Rule -- Nightmare on Elm Drive / Dominick Dunne

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