Dublin Noir - Ken Bruen [77]
—Laura Lippman, winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Shamus awards
BROOKLYN NOIR 2: THE CLASSICS
edited by Tim McLoughlin
309 pages, trade paperback, $15.95
Brooklyn Noir is back with a vengeance, this time with masters of yore mixing with the young blood: H.P. Lovecraft, Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, Irwin Shaw, Carolyn Wheat, Thomas Wolfe, Hubert Selby, Stanley Ellin, Gilbert Sorrentino, Maggie Estep, and Salvatore La Puma.
BALTIMORE NOIR
edited by Laura Lippman
252 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95
Brand new stories by: David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Joseph Wallace, Lisa Respers France, Charlie Stella, Sarah Weinman, Dan Fesperman, Jim Fusilli, and Ben Neihart.
LAURA LIPPMAN has lived in Baltimore most of her life and she would have spent even more time there if the editors of the Sun had agreed to hire her earlier. She attended public schools and has lived in several of the city’s distinctive neighborhoods, including Dickeyville, Tuscany-Canterbury, Evergreen, and South Federal Hill.
SAN FRANCISCO NOIR
edited by Peter Maravelis
292 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95
Brand new stories by: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Alejandro Murguía, Sin Soracco, Alvin Lu, Jon Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim Nesbit, and David Henry Sterry.
CHICAGO NOIR
edited by Neal Pollack
252 pages, a trade paperback original, $14.95
Brand new stories by: Neal Pollack, Achy Obejas, Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Adam Langer, Joe Meno, Peter Orner, Kevin Guilfoile, Bayo Ojikutu, Jeff Allen, Luciano Guerriero, Claire Zulkey, Andrew Ervin, M.K. Meyers, Todd Dills, C.J. Sullivan, Daniel Buckman, Amy Sayre-Roberts, and Jim Arndorfer.
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Table of Contents
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I: THE INSIDE JOB
EOIN COLFER: Taking on PJ
KEN BRUEN: Black Stuff
PAT MULLAN: Tribunal
PART II: THE MANHATTAN CONNECTION
REED FARREL COLEMAN: Portrait of the Killer As a Young Man
PETER SPIEGELMAN: The Best Part
JIM FUSILLI: The Ghost of Rory Gallagher
JASON STARR: Lost in Dublin
CHARLIE STELLA: Tainted Goods
PART III: HEART OF THE OLD COUNTRY
RAY BANKS: Wrong ’Em, Boyo
OLEN STEINHAUER: The Piss-Stained Czech
JOHN RICKARDS: Wish
KEVIN WIGNALL: The Death of Jeffers
PART IV: NEW WORLD NOIR
LAURA LIPPMAN: The Honor Bar
JAMES O. BORN: Tourist Trade
SARAH WEINMAN: Hen Night
GARY PHILLIPS: The Man for the Job
PATRICK J. LAMBE: The New Prosperity
DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI: Lonely and Gone
CRAIG MCDONALD: Rope-A-Dope
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