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A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases | Book by Ann Rule ...!
The Untold Truth Of Ann Rule
ByWilliam J. Wright
Books and documentaries about real-life murder and mayhem are nothing new.
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Among the first publications to seriously explore true crime was the lurid pulp magazine, True Detective. Beginning in 1924, True Detective (originally "True Detective Mysteries"), brought readers graphic accounts of actual murder investigations delivered in the hardboiled style of such writers as Dashiell Hammett.
Reaching a peak in the 1940s and '50s before declining in the '60s, true crime magazines all but disappeared by the 1990s.
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Still, the true crime genre thrived. Thanks to such books as Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," detailing the 1959 slaughter of the Clutter Family and the subsequent trials of killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, and "Helter Skelter," former Los Angeles district attorney Vincent Bugliosi's gripping account of the 1969 Tate-Labianca murders, the public's appetite for detailed accounts of history's most he