TY - BOOK AU - Ellroy,James AU - Penzler,Otto TI - The best American noir of the century T2 - The best American series SN - 0547330774 PY - 2010/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Detective and mystery stories, American KW - Noir fiction, American N1 - 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 ER -