Cop-novelist Joseph Wambaugh has written almost as much true
crime as he has fiction. In fact, two of them were
Edgar-winners. THE ONION FIELD got a special Edgar called the
Herbert Brean memorial award, and FIRE LOVER recently got top
prize in the Fact Crime category. He's also written LINES
& SHADOWS, THE BLOODING, and ECHOES IN THE
DARKNESS.
Another cop-novelist, O'Neil DeNoux is, in addition to his
procedurals about New Orleans homicide cop Dino LaStanza, the
author of the well-regarded true crime book, SPECIFIC
INTENT.
Robert Daley, a former NYPD Assistant Commissioner and author
of several fine NYPD novels such as TO KILL A COP and WALL OF
BRASS also wrote PRINCE OF THE CITY.
Thomas Cook, mentioned here by Mark Sullivan recently, wrote
at least one non-fiction book, BLOOD ECHOES, an Edgar nominee
in the true-crime category.
Clark Howard, an Edgar winner in the short story category,
got Fact Crime Edgar nominations for ZEBRA and SIX AGAINST
THE ROCK. He's also written a couple of fine true-crime
e-books, one about Caryl Chessman and the other about Barbara
Graham (California's two most famous death row inmates during
the 1950's), that can be found here:
Mike Newton is a truly prolific writer, both of hard-boiled
crime fiction and true crime. As a novelist he's responsible
for a series of FBI novels set in LA ("VICAP"), a series of
DEA novels set in Florida ("Agents" written as "Paul
Malone"), and he's ghosted 90 "Mack Bolan - the Executioner"
novels as well as entries in the "Destroyer" series. His true
crime books include ROPE, STOLEN AWAY, DADDY WAS THE BLACK
DAHLIA KILLER (written with Janice Knowlton), THE F.B.I.
ENCYCLOPEDIA, THE F.B.I. MOST WANTED, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
SERIAL KILLERS, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF KIDNAPPINGS, and HUNTING
HUMANS. He's also written one book for beginning novelists,
HOW TO WRITE ACTION/ADVENTURE NOVELS.
And there's also some guy named Doherty who some of you might
be familiar with. He's not a novelist, but he has managed to
get the occasional short story published here and there, and
he's got a small press book out called JUST THE FACTS. You
can find out more about it here:
http://www.deadlyserious.com/JimDoherty
plus you'll be able to see what he looks like in
uniform.
He's also written an e-book about Raymond Chandler which will
be available again, this time for free, at the Barnes &
Noble University site.
JIM DOHERTY
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