Presented at NJLA conference- True Crime, Crime Fiction, Crime Manga (with CL Quillen and Lanora Melillo)

1. 364 with a bullet-
true crime,
crime comics and
crime fiction
Laverne Mann
Lanora Melillo
C.L. Quillen

2. The Classics of True Crime
The Edgar Awards for True
Crime given since 1948
1966

3. The Classics of True Crime
1967

4. The Classics of True Crime
1980

5. The Classics of True Crime
1975

6. The Classics of True Crime

7. The Classics of True Crime

8. 1
The Classics of True Crime

9. The Classics of True Crime

10. The Classics of True Crime
1992
(creator of
The Wire)

11. The Classics of True Crime

12. 364 with a bullet-
true crime,
crime comics and
crime fiction
Laverne Mann
Lanora Melillo

13. True Crime categories--
Mafia, Gangs
Ann Rule
Family + Seduction
Police + Profilers
Cold Cases
Historical Crime
Classics
New Jersey
(To have and to kill, seven Jersey murders)

14. Mafia, Gangs
Al Capone Tokyo Vice
John Gotti This is for the Mara Salvatrucha
Angels of Death: Inside the biker gang’s
La Cosa global crime empire – J Sher
Nostra
Hell’s Angel – R Berger
Casino- Paddy Whacked: The untold story of the
Nicholas Irish American Gangster
Pileggi Havana Nocturne – TJ English
Gomorrah (Naples) – R. Saviano
The Good Rat- Jimmy Breslin
Underboss – P Maas

15. Ann Rule

16. Family, Seduction
Shattered: a mother’s love, a husband’s betrayal, and • Cruel Doubt
a cold blooded Texas murder
Joe
Angel Face: The true story of student killer Amanda McGuiness
Knox
A date with death: The secret life of the ‘craigslist’
killer
Cold as ice: a true story of murder, disappearance,
and the multiple lives of Drew Peterson
LJ bestsellers True Crime 2010

17. Police, Profilers
• FBI profilers • Prison, punishment 365
• John Douglas
• John Walsh
• Dr. Bill Bass (Body Farm)
• The Killer of Little Shepards
• Three weeks inside the mind
of BTK

18. Cold Cases
Zodiac Killer
Jon Benet Ramsey
Natalee Holloway
Bob Crane
The Murder Room

19. Historical Crime
• Jack the Ripper
• Lindbergh Baby
The Case that never dies
• Conspiracy theories!
• The Killer of Little Shepards
• Manhunt: The twelve day chase
for Lincoln’s killer
• Devil in the White City
• Black Dahlia

20. 2011 Edgar Awards
Best Fact Crime
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and
Complicity
by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets
in Jim Crow South by Alex Heard
Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery
by Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz
Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr
and the International Hunt for his Assassin
by Hampton Sides
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth
of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr

21. Underrated…
Strange piece of paradise
Terri Jentz
A rip in heaven
Jeanine Cummins
Lucky
Alice Sebold

23. NoveList
• Crimelibrary.com
• www.mafianj.com
• www.americanmafia.com
• Mysterywriters.org
• Truecrimereport.com
• Truecrimebookreviews.com

24. Crime Manga
Lanora Mellilo,
Secaucus Public Library

25. Crime Fiction
C.L. Quillen,
Old Bridge Public Library

26. Crime Comics
Genre: American comic books
Originally popular in 1940s, 1950s
Moralistic tone and graphic depictions of violence, criminal
activity

27. CRIME COMICS
Detective Comics
Batman
Batwoman
Ed Brubaker:
Sleeper
Criminal
Gotham Central
Incognito
Brian Azzarello:
100 Bullets
Brian Michael Bendis:
Powers
Frank Miller:
Sin City

28. A treasury of Victorian murder
Rick Geary
Graphic Nonfiction:
Jack the Ripper
Lindbergh Child
Borden Tragedy
The Beast of Chicago

29. For more information about graphic
novel collection development
in libraries, please visit the
NJ State Library GN wiki at:
Comicsnj.pbworks.com
Workshop Presenter Materials
Core Collection Lists
comics & graphic novel news sources
Pictures of graphic novels in libraries

30. Questions?
Comments?

31. Thans!
• Laverne Mann lmann@piscatawaylibrary.org
• Lanora Melillo
• C.L. Quillen