The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting

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Otto Penzler Thomas H. Cook

The Best American Crime Writing

2003 Edition: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting

Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook, Thomas H. Cook

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Vintage
01 December 2003

Biography; Politics & government

"The year's best true crime reporting from the U.S.A.

This year's worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute - in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation containing the best examples of the most current and vibrant of our literary traditions- crime reporting. Included in this volume are Maximillian Potter's ""The Body Farm"" from GQ, a portrait of Murray Marks, who collects dead bodies and strews them around two acres of the University of Tennessee campus to study their decomposition in order to help solve crime; Jay Kirk's

""My Undertaker, My Pimp,"" from Harper's, in which Mack Moore and his wife, Angel, switch from running crooked funeral parlors to establishing a brothel; Skip Hollandsworth's ""The Day Treva Throneberry Disappeared"" from Texas Monthly, about the sudden disappearence of a teenager and the strange place she turned up; Lawrence Wright's ""The Counterterrorist"" from The New Yorker, the story of John O'Neill, the FBI agent who tracked Osama bin Laden for a decade-until he was killed when the World Trade Center collapsed. Intriguing, entertaining, and compelling reading, BEST AMERICAN CRIME WRITING has established itself as a much-anticipated annual."

Edited by: Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook, Thomas H. Cook
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 357g
ISBN: 9780375713019
ISBN 10: 0375713018
Publication Date: 01 December 2003
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting

An artful mix of the political, the odd, the macabre, and the downright brilliant... The entire collection is an even mix of 'why didn't I clip that?' and 'how did I miss that?' Avid true-crime readers, take note. -Entertainment Weekly Compelling, well written . . . a riveting collection. -The Boston Sunday Globe Jammed with good prose, fascinating stories and probing investigative work . . . all first rate. . . . 'Best' really belongs in the title. -Star Tribune