True Crime

Kathryn Casey
§ Die, My Love
§ She Wanted it All 		Bernard F. Conners
§ Tailspin 		Kenneth R. Dickson
§ Nothing Personal Just Business 		Don Hale
§ Town Without Pity
Ann Rule
§ Every Breath You Take 		Daniel Stashower
§ The Beautiful Cigar Girl:
Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe
and The Invention of Murder 		Kate Summerscale
§ The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher:
A Shocking Murder and the Undoing
of a Great Victorian Detective

 


Tailspin, Bernard F. Conners, British American, $26.95 (we have a few signed copies).

Although Tailspin is being pushed as the final solution to the Sam Sheppard case (and it is a believable one) I enjoyed it more as a character study of Major James Call, its existential anti-hero, a man without nerves, equally at home in country club or wilderness camp, a war hero who turned to crime to fuel his adrenaline habit. But Conners also shows the price of Call's egotism, both to himself and society. Well written, with a central character no fiction writer could come up with, Tailspin is the True Crime book of the year.

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