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"Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with "Brooklyn Noir". Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In "Milwaukee Noir", a city of manufacturers and booze, as well as growing immigrant community, makes a perfect grist for the Noir Series mill."--back cover.
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"Within these pages you'll find stories of those walking the straight and narrow--until something untoward happens. Maybe it's someone taking a step out of line, getting caught up in circumstances spiraling out of their control. Maybe they're planning the grift, the grab . . . whatever it is to finally put them over. Other times the steps they take are to get themselves or people they care about out from under. You'll find the offerings in these pages...
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"A town named after a British philosopher doesn't exactly evoke visions of Goodis or Highsmith. Grifters? Dames? Cops? In Berkeley? On the surface the alleys don't seem that dark, until we look a little closer. Possibly the most iconic visual image of Berkeley does involve cops. It's the film with Mario Savio, atop a police car with a megaphone, declaring, There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart,...
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"Cleveland is a working-class town, though its great institutions were founded by twentieth-century robber barons and magnates . . . It's this mix of the wealthy and the working class that makes this city--an urban center of brick and girders surrounded by verdant suburbs--a perfect backdrop for lawlessness. Cleveland has certainly seen its share of high-profile crime. Eliot Ness, Cleveland's director of public safety in the 1930s, hunted unsuccessfully...
5) Houston noir
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"Zepeda's introduction notes her hometown's unique features, including the absence of any zoning laws, making Houston 'culturally diverse, internally incongruous, and ever-changing'...Noir aficionados will be pleased." -- Publishers Weekly "There's precious little comfort to be found in any of these Houston neighborhoods, most of which are set light-years away from the city's notoriously cushy new-money culture...Houston comes across as a haven of...
6) Atlanta noir
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"Atlanta has its share, maybe more than its share, of prosperity. But wealth is no safeguard against peril ... Creepy as well as dark, grim in outlook ... Hints of the supernatural may make these tales ... appealing to lovers of ghost stories."--Kirkus Reviews "These stories, most of them by relative unknowns, offer plenty of human interest ... All the tales have a Southern feel." --Publishers Weekly. Jones, author of Leaving Atlanta, returns to the...
10) Oakland noir
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California's noir quotient continues to rise with Oakland Noir, which reveals all the dark complexities of this increasingly prominent city.
11) Long Island noir
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Presents a collection of sinister stories each set in a distinct Long Island location, featuring contributions by such noted mystery authors as Charles Salzberg, Sarah Weinman, and Steven Wishnia.
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