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by William Lindsay Gresham, Edward Anderson, Horace McCoy, Cornell Woolrich, Kenneth Fearing, Robert Polito, James M. Cain

Randolph "Dilda" Carter rated it

12 years ago

text Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s Vol 1 (Library of America)

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-...

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Kaethe rated it

17 years ago

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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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