"The Blooding"

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This paper examines the novel "The Blooding" by Joseph Wambaugh. It explores the fiction and non-fiction crime writing by Wambaugh, and the biography of his life. The paper describes the novel's chilling mystery amid the quaint English countryside, and the use of realistic investigative skills.

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"One cannot talk about American crime writing, whether fiction or nonfiction, without discussing the contributions of Joseph Wambaugh. A Los Angeles police veteran, Wambaugh has 15 books to his credit, four works of nonfiction and 11 novels, eight being made into feature and television films. His gritty, hyper-realistic style has influenced numerous authors for decades (Dunn 2000). Wambaugh transformed the sub-genre of the police novel into serious literature of a hard boiled nature. His first four books and his work on the 1970's television series Policy Story set the standard of realism, dialogue, and character development for subsequent writers or turned them in new directions (Marling 2001)."

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