Best American Crime Writing 2006
- Authors
- Bowden, Mark & Penzler, Otto & Cook, Thomas D.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Tags
- non-fiction , anthologies
- ISBN
- 9780060815523
- Date
- 2006-09-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.37 MB
- Lang
- en
A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of *The Best American Crime Writing* offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:
Jeffrey Toobin's eye-opening exposé in *The New Yorker* about a famous prosecutor who may have put the wrong man on death row
Skip Hollandsworth's amazing but true tale of an old cowboy bank robber who turned out to be a "classic good-hearted Texas woman"
Jimmy Breslin's stellar piece about the end of the Mob as we know it