A good collection of mystery/crime short stories by some well known (and well loved) authors as well as some interesting entries by authors I'm not familiar with. The noir genre is near and dear to my heart (gotta love the bad girls) and some of the stories knocked it out of the park while others just didn't fit my idea of noir. For me the standout stories that captured the noir feel best were: ARM and the Woman by Laura Lippman - An upper middle class divorcee comes up with a rather dark solution to her problems with a baloon mortgage. Some Kind of Killing by Miranda Kent - A fascinating tale told in first person that has you second and third guessing what happened behind closed doors. Lost by J M Redmann - Not necessarily a noir story, but it has Mickey Knight, and it lets Mickey close up a few loose ends. Lucky 13 by Ann Laughlin - A story about karma and revenge - the ending worked very well in this one.