THE CORPSE HAD A FAMILIAR FACE Covering Miami, America's Toughest Crime Beat

Hardback, 1st UK edn. The author was 'Miami Herald' police reporter covering Miami, America's toughest crime beat and winner of a 1986 Pulitzer Prize. She has seen it all, including over 5,000 corpses; many of them had familiar faces. She tells the stories of the misfits, the disenchanted, the evil, the wronged and sometimes the 'crazies'. In 1980 her expose of the brutal murder of Arthur McDuffie by the police sparked the Miami riots. 275pp. 8vo. h/back. Tiny insc. + small embossed stamp on fep o/w Vg+ in sl. frayed Vg. dw.