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Best American Noir of the
Century (2011).
Edited by James Ellroy and Otto
Penzler.
Paperback.
ISBN-13: 978-0547577449
“Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection.” – New York Journal of Books.
In his introduction to The Best
American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, “Noir is the most
scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction… It’s the nightmare
of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time
sure thing that goes bad.” Offering the best examples of literary sure things
gone bad, this collection ensures that nowhere else can readers find a darker,
more thorough distillation of American noir fiction.
James Ellroy and Otto Penzler
mined the past century to find this treasure trove of thirty-nine stories, with
selections from James M. Cain, Mickey Spillane, Elmore Leonard, Patricia
Highsmith, Harlan Ellison, Jeffrey Deaver, Joyce Carol Oates, Dennis Lahane,
and many more.
“Delightfully devilish . . . A
strange trek through the years that includes stories from household names in
the hard-boiled genre to lesser-known authors who nonetheless can hold their
own with the legends.” – Associated Press.
James Ellroy is the author of
the Underworld U.S.A. trilogy – American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and
Blood’s a Rover – and the L.A. Quartet novels, The Black Dahlia, The Big
Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. His most recent book is The Hillicker
Curse, a memoir.
Otto Penzler is the founder of
the Mysterious Bookshop and Mysterious Press, has won two Edgar Allan Poe
Awards (most recently for The Lineup), and is series editor of The Best
American Mystery Stories.
Contents:
Foreword by Otto Penzler;
Introduction by James Ellroy; Spurs, by Tod Robbins; Pastorale, by James M.
Cain; You'll always remember me, by Steve Fisher; Gun crazy, by MacKinlay
Kantor; Nothing to worry about, by Day Keene; The homecoming, by Dorothy B. Hughes;
Man in the dark, by Howard Browne; The lady says die!, by Mickey Spillane;
Professional man, by David Goodis; The hunger, by Charles Beaumont; The
gesture, by Gil Brewer; The last spin, by Evan Hunter; Forever after, by Jim
Thompson; For the rest of her life, by Cornell Woolrich; The dripping, by David
Morrell; Slowly, slowly in the wind, by Patricia Highsmith; Iris, by Stephen
Greenleaf; A ticket out, by Brendan DuBois; Since I don't have you, by James
Ellroy; Texas city, by James Lee Burke; Mefisto in onyx, by Harlan Ellison; Out
there in the darkness, by Ed Gorman; Hot spings, by James Crumley; The
weekender, by Jeffery Deaver; Faithless, by Joyce Carol Oates; Poachers, by Tom
Franklin; Like a bone in the throat, by Lawrence Block; Crack, by James W. Hall;
Running out of dog, by Dennis Lehane; The paperhanger, by William Gay; Midnight
emissions, by F.X. Toole; When the women come out to dance, by Elmore Leonard;
Controlled burn, by Scott Wolven; All through the house, by Christopher Coake;
What she offered, by Thomas H. Cook; Her lord and master, by Andrew Klavan;
Stab, by Chris Adrian; The hoarder, by Bradford Morrow; Missing the morning
bus, by Lorenzo Carcaterra.
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