Download or read book New York Murder Mystery written by Andrew Karmen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading authority on trends in crime offers an impartial analysis of the dramatic drop in the homicide rate in New York City over the decade of the 1990s, and places the fall in the context of the nation's crime rates. UP.