The Best American Crime Writing 2006

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Mark Bowden, Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook
Harper Collins, Mar 17, 2009 - True Crime - 352 pages
Fifteen riveting true crime stories from some of the best crime writers around.

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 exposé 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

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Contents

John Heilemann THE CHOIRBOY
1
Jimmy Breslin THE END OF THE MOB 29
29
Mark Jacobson THE 2000ANHOUR WOMAN 155
45
Skip Hollandsworth THE LAST Ride
73
Jeffrey Toobin KILLER INSTINCTS
99
Robert Nelson ALTAR EGO
125
Gwynne DR EVIL
161
Paige Williams How TO LOSE 100000000
183
Mary Battiata Blood Feud
195
Howard Blum and John Connolly Hit Men in Blue?
223
Richard Rubin The Ghosts of Emmett Till
247
Chuck Hustmyre Blue on Blue
265
Devin Friedman Operation Stealing
277
Denise Grollmus Sex Thief
293
Deanne Stillman The Great Mojave Manhunt
309
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About the author (2009)

THOMAS H. COOK was born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He has been nominated for Edgar Awards seven times in five different categories. He received the Best Novel Edgar, the Barry for Best Novel, and has been nominated for numerous other awards.

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