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Friday, 14 November 2008

Here's a beautiful book. Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in '50s America features covers, pages and spreads from true-crime magazines. It's compiled and introduced by Will Straw.

There are several books of this sort but this is the first one I felt I had to own.

Usually the covers get all the attention, which is understandable. That's what they're supposed to do.

I have that issue of Homicide Squad!

Straw's book also shows us what's inside these magazines, and it turns out to be just as interesting.

That's what sold me on the book. The Strand had it at half price, which is a great deal!