Blood & ink : an international guide to fact-based crime literature

Author(s)

• Borowitz, Albert
• Barzun, Jacques

Bibliographic Information

Blood & ink : an international guide to fact-based crime literature

Albert Borowitz ; note by Jacques Barzun ; foreword by Jonathan Goodman

Kent State University Press, c2002

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-462) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The interplay between crime fact and crime fiction can be detected back to literature's earliest beginnings. True crime has long been the basis of many plots of memorable literature - from Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""The Scarlet Letter"" to Jean Genet's play ""The Maids"", there has often been blood on the page. This guide to ""fact-based crime literature"" focuses on two principal groups of works: non-fictional accounts of crimes and criminal trials, including essays, monographs, journalism, editions of court transcripts, prison histories, and criminal and police biographies; and works of imaginative literature, such as novels, stories or stage works, based on or inspired by actual crimes or criminals.

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Details

• NCID: BA59403158
• ISBN:
  • 0873386930
• LCCN: 2001000570
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Kent
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 524 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Z5703
  • LCC : HV6251
  • DC21 : 016.364
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Crime -- Case studies -- Bibliography
  • LCSH : Criminal investigation -- Case studies -- Bibliography
  • LCSH : Crime writing -- Bibliography