THE BEST AMERICAN CRIME WRITING 2005
Edited by Otto Penzler & Thomas H. Cook
Introduction by James Ellroy
U.S. Publisher: Ecco (Fall 2005)
Foreign Rights Sold: Mondadori (Italy)
The 2005 edition of THE BEST AMERICAN CRIME WRITING 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 Dubner (the co-author of FREAKONOMICS) about a high-society silver thief; and an extraordinarily memorable "ode to bar fights" written for Men's Journal after the author, Jonathan Miles, punched an editor at a staff party. And this year’s edition includes a bonus--an original essay by James Ellroy detailing his obsession with Joseph Waumbaugh even to the point of selling his own blood to buy Waumbaugh’s books. Smart, entertaining, and controversial, THE BEST AMERICAN CRIME WRITING is an essential edition to any crime enthusiast’s bookshelf.
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