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Chicago noir : the classics / edited by Joe Meno. - 249 pages : map ; 22 cm - Akashic noir series . - Akashic noir series. .

30 seconds of darkness / Brother / Kaddish for the kid / The man who went to Chicago (excerpt) / He swung and he missed / I'll cut your throat again, Kathleen / The price of salt (excerpt) / The starving dogs of Little Croatia / Blue Note / The whole world is watching / Libby Fischer Hellman -- Skin deep / Death and the point spread / One holy night / The thirtieth amendment / We didn't / Harry Stephen Keeler -- Sherwood Anderson -- Max Allan Collins -- Richard Wright -- Nelson Algren -- Fredric Brown -- Patricia Highsmith -- Barry Gifford -- Stuart M. Kaminsky -- Sara Paretsky -- Percy Spurlard Parker -- Sandra Cisneros -- Hugh Holton -- Stuard Dybek. Part I: The jazz age. Part II: Noir & neo-noir. Part III: Modern crime.

This anthology collects nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction.

ISBN: 1617753777 9781617753770

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American fiction--Illinois--Chicago.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Noir fiction, American.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Mystery fiction.