Murder One: A Writer's Guide to Homicide (Howdunit Series)

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Summary: ¿Murder One¿ is a good, broad, writer¿s guide to homicide.
Review: "Murder One" accomplishes its purpose: It is a good writer's guide to homicide. Its breadth dictates lack of deep detail. It covers murder: weapons, business murders, narcotics murders, gang murders, organized-crime murders, contract murders, crime-of-passion murders and thrill/lust, sexual, mass, serial, vehicular and bizarre murders.

All books, including "Murder One", I have read in the "Howdunit Series" have been incredibly helpful.

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Summary: An Addition To Your Reference Library, Not A Stand-Alone
Review: Murder One contains a lot of case studies of actual crimes. It also details motives and methods on all sorts of crimes including drug distribution, parents who kill their children and serial killers.

While this book is a great quick reference book, solid crime writing requires a little more depth than this book offers. It's worth having, though, to get you started on the right track.

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Summary: Poorly written book.
Review: The main drawback of this book is that the poor chapters about different types of homicide are not followed by any further literature.