Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

Author	David Simon
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Crime
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	June 1991
Pages	608
ISBN	0-395-48829-X
OCLC	23356235
Dewey Decimal	363.2/59523/097526 20
LC Class	HV8148.B22 S54 1991

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets is a 1991 book written by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon describing a year spent with detectives from the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit. The book received the 1992 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category.^[1]

The book was subsequently fictionalized as the NBC television drama Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–99), on which Simon served as a writer and producer. Many of the key detectives and incidents portrayed in the book provided inspiration for the first two seasons of the show, with other elements surfacing in later seasons as well. It later also provided inspiration for Simon's HBO television series The Wire (2002–08).