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Corpse Had a Familiar Face (Revised, Updated) Revised, Update Edition
Contributor(s): Buchanan, Edna (Author)
ISBN: 1439141142     ISBN-13: 9781439141144
Publisher: Pocket Books
OUR PRICE:   $23.74  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2009
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Annotation: This classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is her nonfiction masterpiece--a tale of life and death on Miami's streets, which she covered for 18 years for "The Miami Herald." Reissue.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- True Crime | Murder - General
- True Crime | Espionage
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2009464983
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 8.2" (0.75 lbs) 416 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - South Atlantic
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Geographic Orientation - Florida
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Locality - Miami, Florida
 
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Publisher Description:

Now in trade paperback, Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Buchanan's classic nonfiction masterpiece detailing events from her eighteen years writing for The Miami Herald.
Nobody covered love and lunacy, life and death on Miami's mean streets better than legendary Miami Herald police reporter Edna Buchanan. Winner of a 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Edna has seen it all, including more than 5,000 corpses. Many of them had familiar faces.

Edna Buchanan doesn't write about cops--she writes about people: the father who murdered his comatose toddler in her hospital crib; fifteen-year-old Charles Cobb--a lethal killer; Gary Robinson, who died hungry; the Haitian who was knitted to death in a Hialeah factory; and the naked man who threw his girlfriend's severed head at a young cop who threw it back.

Contributor Bio(s): Buchanan, Edna: - Edna Buchanan worked The Miami Herald police beat for eighteen years, during which she won scores of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for Career Achievement in Journalism. Edna attracted international acclaim for her classic true-crime memoirs, The Corpse Has a Familiar Face and Never Let Them See You Cry. Her first novel of suspense, Nobody Lives Forever, was nominated for an Edgar Award.