BEST AMERICAN CRIME WRITING 2005, THE

The 2005 edition of 'The Best American Crime Writing' offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read 'New York Times' story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the coauthor of 'Freakanomics') about a high-society silver thief, and a memorable 'ode to bar fights' written by Jonathan Miles for 'Men's Journal' after he punched an editor at a staff party. This year's edition includes an original essay by James Ellroy detailing his fascination with Joseph Wambaugh and how it fed his obsession with crime - even to the point of selling his own blood to buy Wambaugh's books.