Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s (Library of America #94)
The first collection in a two-volume set celebrating American crime fiction contains classic novels of the 1930s and 1940s, including The Postman Always Rings Twice, Thieves Like Us, Nightmare Alley, The Big Clock, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, and I Married a Dead Man. "
The first collection in a two-volume set celebrating American crime fiction contains classic novels of the 1930s and 1940s, including The Postman Always Rings Twice, Thieves Like Us, Nightmare Alley, The Big Clock, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, and I Married a Dead Man. "
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781883011468 (1883011469)
ASIN: 1883011469
Publish date: September 1st 1997
Publisher: Library of America
Pages no: 990
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
20th Century,
Anthologies,
Mystery,
Crime,
Noir,
Short Stories,
Hard Boiled
What can you say about a book this good? For $25 you get 6, count 'em 6 of the very best classic American noir novels of all time: The Postman Always Rings Twice; They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; Thieves Like Us; The Big Clock; Nightmare Alley; and I Married a Dead Man. All this with a real cloth-...
I'm particularly curious about Cornell Woolrich, whom I've never read.***I've been meaning to read "I Married a Dead Man" since 96 or something, because I watched "Mrs. Winterbourne" every time it appeared on cable for a month.Wow. This is freaking fabulous. Woolrich manages to strike exactly the ri...
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