Thread: True crime author Ann Rule dies at age 83
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Old 07-29-2015, 08:06 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I've always been a little dubious about the ethics of writing books about true crime, particularly when the people involved are still alive. It's awfully like making money from those crimes.
Is there any essential difference in this between true crime books and newspaper reportage?
Or, for instance, between true crime books and those about contemporary war crimes?
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