The Best American Crime Writing 2006

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 expose 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

Product details

• Authors: Mark Bowden, Thomas H. Cook, Otto Penzler
• Assisted by: Mark Bowden (Editor), Thomas H. Cook (Editor), Otto Penzler (Editor)
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2006
• EAN: 9780060815523
• ISBN: 978-0-06-081552-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; TRUE CRIME: General, TRUE CRIME: Organized Crime, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Criminals & Outlaws, TRUE CRIME: Sexual Assault, TRUE CRIME: White Collar Crime, TRUE CRIME: Murder / Mass Murder, TRUE CRIME: Forensics