New Orleans noir : the classics / edited by Julie Smith.
Record details
- ISBN: 161775384X
- ISBN: 9781617753848
- Physical Description: 309 pages : map ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: [Brooklyn, NY] : Akashic Books, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | A marriage of conscience / Armand Lanusse -- The little convent girl / Grace King -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- Whistling Dick's Christmas stocking / O. Henry -- The purple hat / Eudora Welty -- Desire and the black masseur / Tennessee Williams -- Miss Yellow Eyes / Shirley Ann Grau -- Pleadings / John William Corrington -- Ritual murder / Tom Dent -- Rich / Ellen Gilchrist -- Spats / Valerie Martin -- The man with the moon hands / O'Neil De Noux -- Rose / John Biguenet -- Mussolini and the Axeman's jazz / Poppy Z. Brite -- GDMFSOB / Nevada Barr -- Jesus out to sea / James Lee Burke -- Last fair deal gone down / Ace Atkins -- Pie man / Maurice Carlos Ruffin. |
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Subject: | American fiction > Louisiana > New Orleans. New Orleans (La.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Detective and mystery stories, American. Noir fiction, American. Short stories, American. Short stories. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Author Notes
New Orleans Noir: the Classics
JULIE SMITH is an Edgar Award winner for best novel, and the author of four mystery series set in New Orleans and San Francisco. A former journalist, she has worked for newspapers in both those cities and now lives in New Orleans. She is the owner of booksBnimble, which publishes mysteries and other quality works digitally. In 2007 Smith edited the best-selling anthology New Orleans Noir for Akashic Books. She is also the editor of New Orleans Noir: The Classics.