The Best American Noir of the Century by Otto Penzler, James Ellroy

The Best American Noir of the Century

Otto Penzler, James Ellroy

624 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction mystery short stories dark mysterious medium-paced

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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 perf...

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