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Akashic Books noir series
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Brooklyn noir 2: the classics
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Chicago noir
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San Francisco noir
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Baltimore noir
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D.C. noir
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Dublin noir: the Celtic tiger vs the ugly American
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London noir
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Manhattan noir
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Miami noir
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Bronx noir
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Detroit noir
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Havana noir
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14) Los Angeles noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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A collection of crime stories that take place in Los Angeles.
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New Orleans noir
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Wall Street noir
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Brooklyn noir 3: nothing but the truth
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D.C. noir 2: the classics
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19) Istanbul noir
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Turnaround [distributor]
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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From the pitch-black and the ephemeral to the realistic and the surreal, from the open-hearted and the fanatic to the malicious and sadistic, from the butcher out for meat to the lamb who wants to live, these stories rip away the enchanting facade to reveal the shadowy side of Istanbul's soul.
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Las Vegas noir
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Manhattan noir 2: the classics
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Paris noir
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Queens noir
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24) Toronto noir
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Akashic
Pub. Date
©2008
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English
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004. Each book is comprised of all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. With Toronto Noir, the series moves fearlessly north of the U.S. border for the first time. --Publisher.
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Trinidad noir
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26) Boston noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Each story in "Boston Noir" is set in a different neighborhood of the city. This impressively diverse collection of mystery stories extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between.
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Phoenix noir
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Portland noir
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30) Rome noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
©2009
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English
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004. Each book is comprised of all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Rome Noir looks beyond the tourist facade to the eerie grandeur and rich decadence of this metropolis. --Publisher.
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San Francisco noir 2: the classics
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Seattle noir
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Lone Star noir
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Los Angeles noir 2
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36) Mexico City noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
©2010
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English
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Presents a collection of crime and noir stories set in Mexico.
37) Moscow noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
©2010
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English
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Story after story offers haunting images: a husband interrupts his bludgeoning murder of his wife to sing their daughter back to sleep (Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's In the New Development); a cop eats an apple that fell from the shaven head of a drunken deputy chief detective just shot to death, who'd been playing William Tell (Alexander Anuchkin's Field of a Thousand Corpses). In Anna Starobinets's The Mercy Bus, a taut tale with a wicked bite, a con...
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Orange County noir
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Philadelphia noir
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Richmond noir
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Barcelona noir
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Cape Cod noir
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43) Copenhagen noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Presents a collection of crime and noir stories set in Copenhagen.
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Haiti noir
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New Jersey noir
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Pittsburgh noir
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San Diego noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Boston Noir 2: The Classics is now a Boston Globe best seller!
"The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class—as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of milltown resentment and pampered preppies."
—The Boston Globe
"14 superior selections in this 'classics' volume in Akashic's series of regional
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Kansas City noir
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Kingston noir
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Long Island noir
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52) Mumbai noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Presents a collection of short stories featuring noir and crime fiction about Mumbai by such authors as Sonia Faleiro, Smita Harish Jain, Devashish Makhija, and Avtar Singh.
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St. Petersburg noir
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Staten Island noir
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55) Venice noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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A collection of sinister stories set in Venice and the Veneto region features contributions from such noted mystery authors as Francesca Mazzucato, Emily St. John Mandel, and Matteo Righetto.
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Dallas noir
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57) Twin Cities noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Presents a collection of short stories featuring noir and crime fiction about the Twin Cities, by such mystery writers as Pete Hautman, Mary Sharratt, Quinton Skinner, and Brad Zellar.
59) Belfast noir
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Akashic Books
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2014.
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English
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Lee Child, Eoin McNamee, and others explore the dark corners and alleyways of Belfast.
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Haiti noir 2: the classics
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Helsinki noir
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62) Prison noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"A remarkable anthology of stories written by inmates of correctional institutions across America ... Most importantly, this landmark volume amplifies the voices of the incarcerated"--Publishers weekly.
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Singapore noir
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64) Tehran noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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This entry in Akashic's noir series takes the gritty sensibilities born out of American film and fiction to Tehran.
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Tel Aviv noir
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Buffalo noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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This anthology collects nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction.
Chicago, city of darkness. With more murders per capita than any other city its size, it is also a city of extensive crime writing, from the pulps to modern day. This anthology collects nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction.
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Marseille noir
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Memphis noir
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Providence noir
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Zagreb noir
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Brussels Noir
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Mississippi noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each volume comprises stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. This sequel to the original best-selling New Orleans Noir takes a literary tour through some of the darkest writing in New Orlean history.--
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Rio noir
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St. Louis noir
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Stockholm noir
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Atlanta Noir
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Buenos Aires noir
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Montreal noir
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New Haven noir
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Oakland noir
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Trinidad noir: the classics
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87) Baghdad noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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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. Now, one of the world's most war-torn cities is portrayed though a noir lens in this chilling story collection"--Provided by publisher.
88) Hong Kong noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Ng and Blumberg-Kason defy the fates by presenting a collection of 14 stories--by Chinese tradition, an ominous number--illustrating their city's dark side...Ng and Blumberg-Kason's Hong Kong is a city on the brink, haunted by its past but facing an uncertain future. Readers can feel lucky to have such a collection." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Hong Kong noir
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90) Lagos noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Lagos has, like many coastal cities, a very checkered and noir past. It is the largest city in Nigeria and its former capital. It is also the largest megacity on the African continent, with a population approximating twenty-one million, and by itself is the fourth-largest economy in Africa...It is rumored that there are more canals in Lagos than in Venice. Except in Lagos they are often unintentional. Gutters that have become waterways and lagoons...
91) Marrakech noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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This entry in Akashic's noir series takes the gritty sensibilities born out of American film and fiction to Marrakech.
92) Prague noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Brand new stories by: Martin Goffa, Štěpán Kopřiva, Miloš Urban, Jiří W. Procházka, Chaim Cigan, Ondřej Neff, Petr Stančík, Kateřina Tučková, Markéta Pilátová, Michal Sýkora, Michaela Klevisová, Petra Soukupová, Irena Hejdová, and Petr Šabach."--Page 4 of cover.
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Santa Cruz noir
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94) São Paulo Noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"On the heels of Rio Noir, beloved Brazilian rock star and best-selling novelist Tony Bellotto ushers another world-class city into the Akashic Noir Series. 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 location within the geographic area of the book."--Publisher's description.
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Vancouver noir
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Berlin noir
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Houston noir
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99) Sydney noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Nothing lasts in Sydney, especially good fortune: lives are upturned, shops are sold, roads dug up, trees and houses knocked down, premiers discarded, and entire communities relocated in the name of that economic mantra--growth and progress. Just when you think the traffic can't get any worse and the screech of the 747s descending over your roof can't get any louder, along comes a wild electrical storm that batters the buildings and shakes the power...
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Accra noir
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101) Addis Ababa noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony--until they don't." --
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Alabama noir
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Belgrade noir
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104) Berkeley noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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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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Columbus noir
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Miami noir: the classics
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107) Nairobi noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Nairobi Noir is an act of excavation, rediscovering the city's ossified past and infusing life to preserve it for future generations. It is also an act of celebration, reminding readers of the brilliance of the best-known writers to emerge from this part of the world, and heralding the birth of new writers whose gifts, we can safely predict, will shine brightly in the years ahead."--Provided by publisher.
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Santa Fe noir
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Tampa Bay noir
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Palm Springs noir
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Paris noir: the suburbs
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South Central noir
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