Title: True crime - Wikipedia
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Content: these have been described as "more than formulaic" and hyper-conventional. Others may reflect years of thoughtful research and inquiry and may have considerable literary merit. A milestone of the genre was Norman Mailer 's The Executioner's Song (1979), which was the first book in the genre to win a Pulitzer Prize. Other prominent true crime accounts include Truman Capote 's In Cold Blood; the best-selling true crime book of all time Helter Skelter, by the lead Manson family prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry; and Ann Rule 's The Stranger Beside Me, about Ted Bundy. An example of a modern true crime book is I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara. Erik Larson 's The Devil in the White City gives a novelistic account of H. H. Holmes ' operations during the 1893 World's Fair . In 2006, Associated Content stated that since the start of the 21st century, the genre of writing that was growing the quickest was true crime. Much of this is due to the ease of recycling materials and the publication of numerous volumes by the same authors differing only by minor updates.