Noir

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

• Politics and Pool in Providence

  J.J. Partridge keeps "the new new and the familiar familiar, while inhabiting the setting with the idiosyncrasy of real life and changing times."

  Edwin HillNov 26, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Noir

• The Roughneck’s Lament

  Would you want to spend your leisure time with this kind of darkness?

  Keith RawsonNov 19, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Noir

• The Apotheosis of Envy

  "Malice" is both a "well-written, well-plotted police procedural" and "the story of two writers."

  Neda SemnaniNov 18, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Noir

• The Devil’s Merry-Go-Round of Cape Town Noir

  In the past 15 years there has been a blossoming of noir in South African literature — see Deon Meyer and Margie Orford.

  Glenn HarperNov 1, 2014

  • Noir

• A Rabbi and a Hit Man Walk into a Subdivision

  Tod Goldberg has decided to put his own absurd twist on old mafia tales with his novel "Gangsterland."

  Adam RosenOct 19, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Noir

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  Andrew Coburn: The Understated Noirist

  Andrew Coburn writes the suburb’s voyeurs, misfits, the covetous, the deranged, and the eccentric.

  Woody HautSep 28, 2014

  • Noir

• Something Rotten in Denmark

  Bill LoehfelmSep 27, 2014

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  Troubled Narrators, Troubled Times

  Scott AdlerbergSep 27, 2014

  • Noir

• Viral Murders

  Serial killers can be pretty garish characters

  Steph ChaSep 21, 2014

  • Noir

• LA Women

  You’re going to have a tough time if you invoke Philip Marlowe in your LA-noir novels.

  Estelle TangSep 13, 2014

  • Noir

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  The Rabbi Who Knew Too Much

  The 50th anniversary of the Rabbi Small series.

  Adam RosenSep 4, 2014

  • Noir

• Cool Characters

  Clarke C. Cooke on the evolution of black crime fiction.

  Clark C. CookeSep 3, 2014

  • Noir