The Gripping True Crime Book Quiz
If you’re addicted to all things True Crime, give our True Crime Book Quiz a try and test your knowledge. 10 Multiple Choice Questions on famous True Crime Books and Authors.
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#1. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was co-researched with which famous author?
Unlucky! Harper Lee was a childhood friend of Capote and they collaborated on In Cold Blood.
#2. Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song won which literature prize?
Unlucky! It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980
#3. Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland by James St. James was originally titled….?
Unlucky! It was Disco Bloodbath and was renamed Party Monster to tie up with the 2003 film adaptation
#4. In 1994, who wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil?
Unlucky! It was written by John Berendt, his first book.
#5. The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule is an insight into which infamous serial killer?
Unlucky! It was written about her friend Ted Bundy
#6. Helter Skelter: The True Story of The Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi was published in what year?
Unlucky! The Trial was in 1970, the book published in 1974
#7. The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum is set in which city?
Unlucky! It was in New York
#8. Complete the title of John Grisham’s The ……….. Man?
Unlucky! The Innocent Man is the title.
#9. Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi follows the life of which famous mobster?
Unlucky! It follows the life of Henry Hill
#10. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, which city is the White City?
Unlucky! It was set in Chicago at the 1893 World’s Fair
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