Los Angeles Review of Books - Issue 4 - Noir - [Epub Edition]

Megan Abbott, “Soft-Voiced Big Men”; on Robert Crais's The Sentry

Miles Corwin, “Tall Redhead Syndrome”; on James Ellroy’s The Hilliker Syndrome

Boris Dralyuk, “The Incomplete Cain”; on the noir master Paul Cain

Dan Fante, “Three-Dimensional Wistfulness”; on P.G. Sturges’ neo-noir Shortcut Man

Woody Haut, “Snappy and Reckless”; on Richard Hallas's cult classic You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up

Jefferson Hunter, “Black Blood: Ross Macdonald and the Oil Spill”: the little-known ecological consciousness of one of the tough-guy writers of the 1950s and 1960s

Charles Kelly, “The Wrong Marlowe,” the fascinating life and work of an amnesiac pulp writer in L.A.

Rohan Maitzen, “Martin Beck Has A Cold”; on the 10 police procedurals in Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Story of Crime series

Anthony Olcott, “Real Penguins in Imaginary Apartments”; on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction

Neal Pollack, “Artistic Pulp Sleaziness”; on a 23-volume Richard Stark reprint series

Richard Rayner, “Paperback Writers: Georges Simenon” on the great French pulpiere

John Shannon “A Chilling Vietnam War Novel”; on Kent Anderson’s Sympathy for the Devil