True crime stories
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
True crime stories
- Here are entered works on non-fiction crime narratives, written in a novelistic style for a popular audience, frequently focusing on biography, criminal psychology, police investigations, and trial procedures.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006008498
- info:lc/authorities/sh2006008498
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2006008498#concept
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Variants
- Crime stories, True
Broader Terms
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Biressi, A. Crime, fear and the law in true crime stories, c2002: p. 1 ("non-fiction narratives based on actual events, packaged and promoted for entertainment as 'leisure reading'") p. 2 ("a form which proffers the reader stories of lived experiences of crime, violence and murder")
- found: Provost, G. How to write & sell true crime, c1991.
- found: McQueen, K. Murder in old Kentucky : true crime stories from the Bluegrass, c2005.
- found: Boucher, A. Pocket book of true crime stories, 1943.
- found: Wikipedia, Nov. 30, 2006 ("a non-fiction genre in which the author uses an actual crime and real people as a point of departure; frequently marked by biographical treatment of the criminals and victims, attempts to explain criminal psychology, and descriptions of police investigations and trial procedures")
General Notes
- Here are entered works on non-fiction crime narratives, written in a novelistic style for a popular audience, frequently focusing on biography, criminal psychology, police investigations, and trial procedures.
Change Notes
- 2006-11-30: new
- 2007-02-10: revised
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