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True Crime
“Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.’
- Andrew Vachss
“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.’
- Agatha Christie
“That anybody benefits – through monetary gain or personal titillation –from domestic murder, sex crimes, and grotesque violence seems distasteful,” notes literary critic Pamela Burger. “And so we want to consign true crime to the lowest rungs of culture. Yet the genre’s long, rich history shows us that there is much more to true crime than penny dreadfuls and blood-spattered paperbacks.”
True crime books often center on sensational, shocking, or strange events, particularly murder. A milestone of the genre was Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song (1979), which was the first book in the genre to win a Pulitzer Prize. Another famous true crime accounts is Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. Others include the bestselling true crime book of all time, Helter Skelter by Manson Family prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, Ann Rule’s first-hand account of Ted Bundy, The Stranger Beside Me, and the many works about such murder cases as JonBenét Ramsey, OJ Simpson, and Pamela Smart.
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