In Broad Daylight (book)

In Broad Daylight
AuthorHarry N. MacLean
LanguageEnglish
GenreTrue crime
Published1988 Harper and Row
2012 Crime Rant Classics (e-book with updates)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint and e-book
Pages342 (print)
428 (e-book)
ISBN0-06-015876-X
OCLC17652068
364.1/5/09778124
LC ClassHV6534.S55 M33 1988
e-book ASIN B008J7CNGU

In Broad Daylight is a 1988 true crime book by award-winning writer Harry N. MacLean, detailing the killing of town bully Ken Rex McElroy in 1981 in Skidmore, Missouri. The book won an Edgar Award for best true crime writing in 1989, was a New York Times bestseller for 12 weeks (charting at number 2) and was adapted into a television movie of the same name. The book was reissued in 2007 by St. Martin's Press with a new epilogue.