Marcia Clark on Small Towns The famous OJ prosecutor wrote an essay for the Daily Beast: Why Child Killers Love Small Towns. It made me wonder where she grew up.
Green River Comic?? From Publishers Weekly: Entertainment Weekly reporter pens graphic novel on the Green River Killer. And more on that comic.
The Anglo Addict I love the theme of this site offering thoughts on the best in British true crime.
Do Not Fictionalize, Part XXIX I guess we can add another critic to the list of those who don't like it when authors thinly fictionalize true crime cases. Notes a recent review of a fiction title based on a true story: "[The author] calls the book a novel, but it’s puzzling why she made the decision to write a fiction account. If anyone went to the trouble to write a narrative of the murders, why not make it a true-crime book?"
Fatty Arbuckle Redux A Hollywood man, a pretty actress, a mysterious homicide- long before there was Phil Spector, there was Fatty Arbuckle. No author has touched the case in nearly two decades. But that may soon change. Joan Myers, who has written a fascinating essay about the case, is working on a new look at the Arbuckle affair. She has researched it for years, discovering along the way that some of the previous books about the case are laden with errors and nonsense. The real story, she says, is much more interesting. Drew Peterson Book Carlton Smith is the author writing a Drew Peterson book per Publisher's Lunch (subscription required).
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