UNSPEAKABLE ACTS: TRUE TALES OF CRIME, MURDER, DECEIT, AND OBSESSION

New York City, NY: Ecco Press, 2020. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Ecco Press, 2020. Softcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 393 pages. Retrospective collection of journalistic accounts. One of the best anthologies of its kind ever published in our time. Uncorrected Proof. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a small and limited first print run by Ecco Press as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher and author only. The ISBN is the same as the regular trade edition. The Uncorrected Proof is now rare. Presents, in its earliest-state format, "Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, And Obsession". Edited by the estimable and indefatigable crime-writer Sarah Weinman. Foreword by Patrick Radden Keefe, the brilliant New Yorker Magazine writer, who has written similar Crime Profiles himself. "The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. The cultural appetite for stories of real people doing terrible things is insatiable. Culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today: Michelle Dean's 'Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered' went viral when it was first published, and is the basis of 'The Act'. Pamela Colloff's 'The Reckoning' is the gold standard of forensic journalism" (Publisher's blurb). There are thirteen pieces in all, each one of them makes us understand why crime stories transfix and are impossible to resist. An absolute must-have title for Sarah Weinman, Patrick Radden Keefe and true-crime collectors. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only Uncorrected Proof available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare copy thus. Some of the most brilliant journalist-writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0062839888.