Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s by Horace McCoy, Edward Anderson, James M. Cain, William Lindsay Gresham, Robert Polito, Cornell Woolrich, Kenneth Fearing

990 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction crime mystery mysterious medium-paced
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"The most important collection of crime fiction ever published in the United States." -- Ed Gorman Evolving out of the terse and violent style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied, innovative and profoundly i...

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