"A special publication of the Library of America." Includes bibliographical references (pages 775-778) and index
Contents:
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
