# The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories - Hardcover

by **Mark Bowden** (Author)

**From Mark Bowden, a "master of narrative journalism" (_New York Times_), comes a true-crime collection both deeply chilling and impossible to put down.**

Six captivating true-crime stories, spanning Mark Bowden's long and illustrious career, cover a variety of crimes complicated by extraordinary circumstances. Winner of a lifetime achievement award from International Thriller Writers, Bowden revisits in _The Case of the Vanishing Blonde_ some of his most riveting stories and examines the effects of modern technology on the journalistic process.

From a story of a campus rape at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 that unleashed a moral debate over the nature of consent when drinking and drugs are involved to three cold cases featuring the inimitable Long Island private detective Ken Brennan and a startling investigation that reveals a murderer within the LAPD's ranks, shielded for twenty six years by officers keen to protect one of their own, these stories are the work of a masterful narrative journalist at work. Gripping true crime from a writer the _Washington Post_ calls "an old pro."

### Author Biography

**Mark Bowden** is the author of thirteen books, including the #1 _New York Times_ bestseller _Black Hawk Down_. He reported at the _Philadelphia Inquirer_ for twenty years and now writes for the _Atlantic_ and other magazines. He is also the writer in residence at the University of Delaware.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN

**Publication Date:** July 07, 2020

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