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1 online resource (xiv, 731 pages). |
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The best American series |
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Best American series.
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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. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: In his introduction to the The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, "Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad." Offering the best examples of literary sure things gone bad, this collection ensures that nowhere else can readers find a darker, more thorough distillation of American noir fiction. James Ellroy and Otto Penzler, series editor of the annual The Best American Mystery Stories, mined one hundred years of writing-1910-2010-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 post-war heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter. Packing an undeniable punch, diverse contemporary incarnations include Elmore Leonard, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, Dennis Lehane, and William Gay, with many page-turners appearing in the last decade. |
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Noir fiction, American.
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Detective and mystery stories, American.
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American fiction -- 20th century.
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Short stories, American.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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Ellroy, James, 1948- author.
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Penzler, Otto, author.
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Robbins, Ted.
Spurs.
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Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977.
Pastorale.
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Fisher, Steve, 1912-1980.
You'll always remember me.
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Kantor, MacKinlay, 1904-1977.
Gun crazy.
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Keene, Day.
Nothing to worry about.
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Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993.
Homecoming.
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Browne, Howard, 1907-1999.
Man in the dark.
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Spillane, Mickey, 1918-2006.
Lady says die!
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Goodis, David, 1917-1967.
Professional man.
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Beaumont, Charles, 1929-1967.
Hunger.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Best American noir of the century Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 (DLC) 2010017204 |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Best American noir of the century Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011 9780547577449 (NjBwBT)bl2012028328 (OCoLC)694829968 |
| ISBN |
9780547719306 |
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0547719302 |
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