Contributor
Schechter, Harold.
Imprint:New York : Library of America, c2008.
Descriptionxx, 788 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Introduction. The hanging of John Billington / William Bradford. - Pillars of salt / Cotton Mather. - The murder of a daughter / Benjamin Franklin. - An account of a murder committed by Mr.J--- Y---, upon his family, in December, A.D. 1781 / Anonymous. - "A crime more atrocious and horrible than any other" /Timothy Dwight. - Jesse Strang / The record of crimes in the United States. - The recent tragedy / James Gordon Bennett. - "A show of wax-figures" / Nathaniel Hawthorne. - A remarkable case of arrest for murder / Abraham Lincoln. - Crime News from California / Ambrose Bierce. - from Roughing it / Mark Twain. - Jesse Harding Pomeroy, the boy friend / Anonymous. - Gibbeted / Lafcadio Hearn. - A memorable murder / Celia Thaxter. - The trial of Guiteau / Jose Marti. - The murder of Annie Downey, alias "Curly Tom" / Thomas Byrnes. - Hunting human games / Frank Norris. - The Hossack murder / Susan Glaspell. - Murder ballads (Poor Naomi, Stackalee, The murder of Grace Brown, Belle Gunness, The murder at Fall River, Trail's end). Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, Murderess / Thomas S. Duke. - Hell benders, or The story of a wayside tavern / Edmund Pearson. - The eternal blonde / Damon Runyon. - from The gangs of New York / Herbert Asbury. - The mystery of the Hansom Cab / Alexander Woollcott. - Execution / Joseph Mitchell. - More and better Psychopaths / H.L. Mencken. - Dreiser sees error in Edwards defense / Theodore Dreiser. - Sex and the all-american boy / Dorothy Kilgallen. - Miss Ferber views "Vultures" at trial / Edna Ferber. - Ditch of doom / Jim Thompson -- A sort of genius / James Thurber. - Veteran kills 12 in mad rampage on Camden Street / Meyer Berger. - Butcher's dozen / John Bartlow Martin. - The case of the scattered dutchman / A.J. Liebling. - The trial of Ruby McCollum / Zora Neale Hurston. - The black Dahlia / Jack Webb. - The life and death of Caryl Chessman / Elizabeth Hardwick. - The shambles of Ed Gein / Robert Bloch. - Superman's crime: Loeb and Leopold / Miriam Allen deFord. - Eight girls, all pretty, all nurses, all slain / W.T. Brannon. - The Pied Piper of Tucson / Don Moser. - A stranger with a camera / Calvin Trillin. - Charlie Manson's home on the range / Gay Talese. - Then it all came down / Truman Capote. - "Son of Sam" / Jimmy Breslin. - The Turner-Stompanato Killing: a family affair / Jay Robert Nash. - The medea of Kew Gardens Hills / Albert Borowitz. - My mother's killer / James Ellroy. - Young love/ Ann Rule. - Nightmare on Elm Drive / Dominick Dunne.
