This is detailed and very informative piece of theory and criticism on crime fiction from political angle, mostly about modern noir writers and how politics influenced them and their work, and how their work reflected that on society.
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Lionel White - The Snatchers/Clean Break (The Killing)
I have already written about Lionel White and his crime-caper novels, and this Stark House double-bill edition, featuring an excellent intro...
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Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone remains one of the most notorious figures in American criminal history. Born in 1899 in Brooklyn to I... -
While many consider Hammett, Chandler, or even Horace McCoy as the titans of noir, I’d argue none of them reached the psychological depths J... -
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Cornell Woolrich’s The Bride Wore Black (1940) remains one of the most haunting works of noir fiction, a chilling exploration of grief, o...
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