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Los Angeles noir 2 : the classics / edited by Denise Hamilton.
- Title
- Los Angeles noir 2 : the classics / edited by Denise Hamilton.
- Publication
- New York : Akashic Books, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS648.N64 L673 2010 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Hamilton, Denise
- Description
- 326 p. : map; 21 cm.
- Summary
- From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings you the masters of the genre penning tales of love, lust, and loss in the City of Angels. Includes classic stories by: Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross MacDonald, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Margaret Millar, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell Gault, Jervey Tervalon, Kate Braverman, and Yxta Maya Murray. Editor Denise Hamilton is the author of the Eve Diamond series and the editor of Los Angeles Noir. Her latest novel, Los Angeles Times bestseller The Last Embrace, has been compared to works by James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler. She lives in Los Angeles.
- Series Statement
- Akashic noir series
- Uniform Title
- Akashic noir series
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Noir fiction.
- Mystery fiction
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Noir fiction
- Short stories
- Short stories.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I'll be waiting / Raymond Chandler -- Murder in blue / Paul Cain -- I feel bad killing you / Leigh Brackett -- Dead man / James M. Cain -- The night's for cryin' / Chester Himes -- Find the woman / Ross Macdonald -- The chirashi covenant / Naomi Hirahara -- High Darktown / James Ellroy -- The people across the canyon / Margaret Millar -- Surf / Joseph Hansen -- The Kerman kill / William Campbell Gault -- Crimson shadow / Walter Mosley -- Rika / Jervey Tervalon -- Lucía / Yxta Maya Murray -- Tall tales from the Mekong Delta / Kate Braverman.
- ISBN
- 9781936070022 (pbk.)
- 1936070022 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2009911099
- OCLC
- 456177956
- SCSB-10838494
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library