Wenzell Brown: 3 books

The public has always had a fascination with true crime, from the Victorian era to the present day. This collection presents 4 classic true crime books in one volume. Three are by Wenzell Brown, who worked with troubled teenagers in New York, turning their stories to stories for his books. Ones is by...

The public has always had a fascination with true crime, from the Victorian era to the present day. Wenzell Brown, who worked with troubled teenagers in New York, turned their stories into fodder for his books.

Wenzell Brown's true crime expose of teenage juvenile delinquency, originally published in 1958, is a less sensationalistic than its original 1950s cover would suggest. The original cover copy proclaimed: "The inside story of juvenile delinquency told in actual cases of violence and sex."