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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 364.973 EAN: 9780060815516 ISBN: 0060815515 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: September 01, 2005 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: September 06, 2005 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the coauthor of Freakanomics) about a high-society silver thief, and an extraordinarily memorable "ode to bar fights" written by Jonathan Miles for Men's Journal after he punched an editor at a staff party. But this year's edition includes a bonus -- an original essay by James Ellroy detailing his fascination with Joseph Wambaugh and how it fed his obsession with crime -- even to the point of selling his own blood to buy Wambaugh's books. Smart, entertaining, and controversial, The Best American Crime Writing is an essential edition to any crime enthusiast's bookshelf. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Ellroy's Wonderful Tribute To Joe WambaughThere are several very good articles in this edition of "The Best American Crime Writing." I especially liked "The Self-Destruction of an M.D." and "Stalking Her Killer." But the main reason for me to buy this book is editor James Ellroy's heartfelt, masterful tribute to pioneering crime novelist Joseph Wambaugh in the never-before-published essay "Choirboys." Ellroy once again tells the sordid story of his early life and hard times as a street person. Only this time he recounts his reading at ... Read More Rating: - Excellent overall, but biased toward coastal publicationsThis is quite a good anthology, although the selections are heavily tilted toward New York publications. The New Yorker and New York Times magazines are certainly not the only venues for crime reporters, though you might think so if you relied only on the editor's choices. The best part of the book is James Ellroy's contributed essay "Choirboys" in which he recounts his misspent youth before finally being motivated to writing by the publication of Wambaugh's novels. Ellroy's power ... Read More Rating:  - A Slightly Off Year For This Usually Fantastic Anthology...Crime writers are thankful that Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have found a new home for The Best American Crime Writing 2005. This anthology, previously published by the Vintage label of Random House, has just jumped ship to the Harper Perennial label of Harper Collins. The collection, priced at $10.17, gathers sixteen primo stories that were carefully selected by two authentic crime aficionados. The yarns reprinted here were initially published in oddball places ranging from big city newspapers, ... Read More Rating:  - what crime?really its bit of a misnomer there are 4 or 5 stories that arent really crime in the more traditional sense . a couple stories belong in politics . yes i understand blowing up things is a crime but really were looking at a different animal here. if you want a good read inthe al queda area read steven coll's book or charlie wilsons war- more of the genesis of al queda. the bar room fight story which wasnt all that bad for what it was mostly because the writer was able to breathe a little life in ... Read More Rating: - True-life crime Journalism at its best-A pleasing assortmentAs fan of non-fiction with a leaning towards true life mysteries; I was thrilled to find the 2004 edition of Best American Crime Writing on my library shelves- I ate the whole book up in a few days. I was thrilled to learn that there were additional years of "Best' books, right now I am finishing the 2002 compilation ... I decided to dash off a review before I had forgotten.What is so much fun is that the articles themselves are twenty or thirty pages so it's easy to finish one or two in a sitting. ... Read More 
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