The best American noir of the century /
James Ellroy and Otto Penzler mined the past century to find this treasure trove of thirty-nine stories. From noir's twenties-era infancy come gems like James M. Cain's "Pastorale," and its postwar heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter. Packing an undeniable p...
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Boston ; New York :
Mariner Books , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2011.
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| Edition: | First Mariner Books edition |
| Series: | Best American series
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Table of Contents:
- Spurs / Tod Robbins
- Pastorale / James M. Cain
- You'll always remember me / Steve Fisher
- Gun crazy / MacKinlay Kantor
- Nothing to worry about / Day Keene
- The homecoming / Dorothy B. Hughes
- Man in the dark / Howard Browne
- The lady says die! / Mickey Spillane
- Professional man / David Goodis
- The hunger / Charles Beaumont
- The gesture / Gil Brewer
- The last spin / Evan Hunter
- Forever after / Jim Thompson
- For the rest of her life / Cornell Woolrich
- The dripping / David Morrell
- Slowly, slowly in the wind / Patricia Highsmith
- Iris / Stephen Greenleaf
- A ticket out / Brendan DuBois
- Since I don't have you / James Ellroy
- Texas city / James Lee Burke
- Mefisto in onyx / Harlan Ellison
- Out there in the darkness / Ed Gorman
- Hot spings / James Crumley
- The weekender / Jeffery Deaver
- Faithless / Joyce Carol Oates
- Poachers / Tom Franklin
- Like a bone in the throat / Lawrence Block
- Crack / James W. Hall
- Running out of dog / Dennis Lehane
- The paperhanger / William Gay
- Midnight emissions / F.X. Toole
- When the women come out to dance / Elmore Leonard
- Controlled burn / Scott Wolven
- All through the house / Christopher Coake
- What she offered / Thomas H. Cook
- Her lord and master / Andrew Klavan
- Stab / Chris Adrian
- The hoarder / Bradford Morrow
- Missing the morning bus / Lorenzo Carcaterra.