The techniques Wambaugh uses can be traced to Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) who wrote with great realism about crime and the city. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) too, was a master of graphic, even scatological description.
Charles Dickens's (1812-1870) novels often concerned crimes committed in an urban setting and described grotesque characters living in hideous slums. Wambaugh's novels are also similar to the writings of Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) who wrote about.....
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