American murder
Subtitle: criminals, crime, and the media
By: by Mike Mayo.
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Canton, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9781578591916
Subjects: Crime in popular culture -- United States -- Case studies; Crime in mass media -- United States -- Case studies; Murder in mass media -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: "Scurrilous cutthroats, marauding desperadoes, demented psychopaths, deluded assassins, serial widows, ruthless gangsters, angels of death, and hardened hitmen from colonial times to the present, and the songs, books, plays, and films they have inspired."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-394) and index.