Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s by Charles Willeford, Robert Polito, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, Patricia Highsmith, Chester Himes

892 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious fast-paced
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This adventurous two-volume collection presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over t...

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