Summary: This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, 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 the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRISummary: From crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vividly experimental, from the determination of those risking everything to the desperation of those with nothing left to lose, Detroit Noir delivers unforgettable tales that capture the city's dark vitality -- From publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DETContents: The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain -- They shoot horses, don't they / Horace McCoy -- Thieves like us / Edward Anderson -- The big clock / Kenneth Fearing -- Nightmare alley / William Lindsay Gresham -- I married a dead man / Cornell Woolrich.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CRISummary: Presents a collection of stories by current and former residents of Havana that relate tales of ambiguous moralities, collective cruelty, and the damage incurred by self-preservation at all costs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAVUrlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URLAmerica.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM AmericaAmerica (Musical group)
Contents: Riverside -- Sandman -- Three roses -- Children -- A horse with no name Here -- I need you -- Rainy day -- Never found the time -- Clarice -- Donkey jaw -- Pigeon song.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1972