The Best American Noir of the Century

A delightful romp though literary noir. The selection ranges through the 20th century, emphasizing the later decades more than the earlier. Stories cover a lot of ground within the introduction's fairly specific genre definition. Tales work with other domains and genres, including crime, mystery, sex, science fiction, and horror. Interesting to see so much rural, rather than urban noir. We often associate the genre with hard-bitten city streets.