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The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories
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From Mark Bowden, a "master of narrative journalism" (New York Times), comes a true-crime collection both deeply chilling and impossible to put down. Six captivating true-crime stories, spanning Mark Bowden's long and illustrious career, cover a variety of crimes complicated by extraordinary circumstances. Winner of a lifetime achievement award from International Thriller Writers, Bowden revisits in The Case of the Vanishing Blonde some of his most riveting stories and examines the effects of modern technology on the journalistic process. From a story of a campus rape at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 that unleashed a moral debate over the nature of consent when drinking and drugs are involved to three cold cases featuring the inimitable Long Island private detective Ken Brennan and a startling investigation that reveals a murderer within the LAPD's ranks, shielded for twenty six years by officers keen to protect one of their own, these stories are the work of a masterful narrative journalist at work. Gripping true crime from a writer the Washington Post calls "an old pro."
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"Though Bowden...notes that crime stories serve to titillate, he proves that the genre is more than voyeuristic thrills."
"But that's exactly what the book is: an absolute joy to read."
"The six previously published true crime stories in this engrossing collection from Bowden...showcase his gift for narrative nonfiction ..."
"Bowden writes with journalistic efficiency and a matter-of-fact admiration of the investigative work—from the ingenious to the tedious—of his detectives, whose mystery solving 'creates order from disorder, salves our ache for moral balance.'"
"An uneven but often enthralling collection of true-crime investigations."
"Rather, as he shows in every essay in The Case of the Vanishing Blonde</em, Bowden is concerned only with meat and potatoes."
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