The best American noir of the century

Ellroy, James, 1948- (Added Author). Penzler, Otto (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 9780547330778
ISBN: 0547330774
Physical Description: print
xiv, 731 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

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