The Best American Crime Writing 2004 - Softcover

Penzler, Otto; Cook, Thomas H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375713026 ISBN 13: 9780375713026

Publisher: Random House USA Children's Books, 2004

Synopsis

A collection of some of the finest works of crime journalism from the past year includes Jon Krakauer's "The Mormon Murders" James Ellroy's "Stephanie" Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s insider's view on the Michael Skakel's trial, "A Miscarriage of Justice" and Scott Turow's "To Kill or Not to Kill." Simultaneous. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas H. Cook is the author of eighteen books, including two works of true crime. His novels have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Macavity Award and the Dashiell Hammett Prize. The Chatham School Affair won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1996. His true crime book, Blood Echoes, was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1992, and his story "Fatherhood" won the Herodotus Prize in 1998 and was included in Best Mystery Stories of 1998, edited by Otto Penzler and Ed McBain. His works have been translated into fifteen languages.

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and the Ellery Queen Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the series editor of The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year. His other anthologies include Murder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. He wrote 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery & Suspense. He lives in New York City.

Synopsis:

Collects short true crime stories by authors including Scott Turow, John H. Richardson, Mark Schone, and David Grann, taken from such magazines as GQ, the New Yorker, and Vanity Fair.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Children's Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0375713026
• ISBN 13: 9780375713026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432