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From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings readers the masters of the genre, penning tales of love, lust and loss in the City of Angels. Some, like Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, are literary lions. Others, like screenwriters Paul Cain and Leigh Brackett, whose hard-boiled prose shoots like bullets from a bootlegger's gun, are mainly known by cognoscenti. Sequel to Los Angeles Noir, the bestselling volume in the Akashic Noir series.… (lisätietoja)
FYI Review - This anthology contains the following short stories: Part I: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang “I’ll Be Waiting” by Raymond Chandler (Mid-Wilshire, 1939) “Murder in Blue” by Paul Cain (Downtown, 1933) “I Feel Bad Killing You” by Leigh Brackett (Santa Monica, 1944) “Dead Man” by James M. Cain (San Fernando, 1936) “The Night’s for Cryin'” by Chester Himes (South Los Angeles, 1937)
Part II: After the War “Find the Woman” by Ross Macdonald (Beverly Hills, 1946) “The Chirashi Covenant” by Naomi Hirahara (Terminal Island, 2007) “High Darktown” by James Ellroy (West Adams, 1986)
Part III: Killer Views “The People Across the Canyon” by Margaret Millar (L.A. Canyon, 1962) “Surf” by Joseph Hansen (Venice, 1976) “The Kerman Kill” by William Campbell Gault (Pacific Palisades, 1987)
Part IV: Modern Classics “Crimson Shadow” by Walter Mosley (Watts, 1995) “Rika” by Jervey Tervalon (Baldwin Hills, 1994) “Lucía” by Yxta Maya Murray (Echo Park, 1997) “Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta” by Kate Braverman (Bel Air, 1990)
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Los Angeles is a young city. As recently as the 1860s, it was still a dusty Spanish pueblo where the Zanjero who regulated the water flow from the Los Angeles River earned more than the mayor. -Introduction, Toiling in the Dream Factory
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And lastly, thanks to the hard-working librarians at the Glendale and Los Angeles public libraries who helped me track down some of the more obscure and out-of-print titles. They are the true private eyes of the literary world.
From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings readers the masters of the genre, penning tales of love, lust and loss in the City of Angels. Some, like Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, are literary lions. Others, like screenwriters Paul Cain and Leigh Brackett, whose hard-boiled prose shoots like bullets from a bootlegger's gun, are mainly known by cognoscenti. Sequel to Los Angeles Noir, the bestselling volume in the Akashic Noir series.
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Part I: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
“I’ll Be Waiting” by Raymond Chandler (Mid-Wilshire, 1939)
“Murder in Blue” by Paul Cain (Downtown, 1933)
“I Feel Bad Killing You” by Leigh Brackett (Santa Monica, 1944)
“Dead Man” by James M. Cain (San Fernando, 1936)
“The Night’s for Cryin'” by Chester Himes (South Los Angeles, 1937)
Part II: After the War
“Find the Woman” by Ross Macdonald (Beverly Hills, 1946)
“The Chirashi Covenant” by Naomi Hirahara (Terminal Island, 2007)
“High Darktown” by James Ellroy (West Adams, 1986)
Part III: Killer Views
“The People Across the Canyon” by Margaret Millar (L.A. Canyon, 1962)
“Surf” by Joseph Hansen (Venice, 1976)
“The Kerman Kill” by William Campbell Gault (Pacific Palisades, 1987)
Part IV: Modern Classics
“Crimson Shadow” by Walter Mosley (Watts, 1995)
“Rika” by Jervey Tervalon (Baldwin Hills, 1994)
“Lucía” by Yxta Maya Murray (Echo Park, 1997)
“Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta” by Kate Braverman (Bel Air, 1990)