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Blood & ink : an international guide to fact-based crime literature
- Title
- Blood & ink : an international guide to fact-based crime literature / Albert Borowitz ; note by Jacques Barzun ; foreword by Jonathan Goodman.
- Author
- Borowitz, Albert, 1930-
- Publication
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | Z5703 .B67 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 524 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "Albert Borowitz provides a guide to "fact-based crime literature" focusing on two principal groups of works: nonfictional accounts of crimes and criminal trials, including essays, monographs, journalism, editions of court transcripts, prison histories, and criminal and police biographies and memoirs; and works of imaginative literature, such as novels, stories, or stage works, based on or inspired by actual crimes or criminals."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Blood and ink
- Subject
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-462) and index.
- Contents
- Note: The Place and Point of "True Crime" / Jacques Barzun -- Foreword: Some Prescriptions and Proscriptions for "True Crime" / Jonathan Goodman -- Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature.
- ISBN
- 0873386930 (cloth)
- 0873387201 (paper)
- 0873386892 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001000570
- OCLC
- ocm45830095
- SCSB-14491847
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries