The Mammoth Book of True Crime

By Colin Wilson

Book Overview

An updated edition of the Mammoth compendium of crime & criminality. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088184411X
• ISBN13: 9780881844115
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 630 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.2" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Themes of Colin Wilson Exhibited In This Book

Colin Wilson is is a prolific author, he has written over 90 books, since the publication of his "The Outsider" decades ago. There are certain themes that Mr. Wilson deals with in his writings, and it is also exhibited here. In his writings, he has attempted to understand man, and there is no law fortuantely saying that you must be a Phd in order to do so, and it is a presumptous fallacy to say that non Phd's cannot make...

A Feast for True Crime Gluttons!

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the true crime genre. There's loads of material in this lengthy book, and the best part is that the author avoids the well-trodden paths of the more famous crimes. I read a lot of true crime, and most of the cases in the book were new to me. It's very readable and engrossing.Now my complaints: first, the author sometimes over-reaches his own abilities on psychological...

Informative

This book was very informative! I couldn't put it down once I started. It is set up much like an encyclopedia, alphabetical order. But trust me, it is far from an encyclopedia!! It highlights one case per section, which I think is a very good idea! I highly recomend this book to anyone, especially true crime fantics!!

CHECK THE DOORS AND WINDOWS BUT WHICH CENTURY ARE WE IN?

As usual, Wilson's obsessive accounts of the criminal mind at work are unnerving and in this book he delivers a fantastic range of disgusting tales and trials. I expected something at the end , along the lines of "if you actually finished this book, get psychiatric help because you need it." In other words, a thoroughly entertaining read, if just a tad too wild for bedtime (don't read it to your children; read parts of it...