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Book

Crime novels : American noir of the 1950s.

Call Number

  • MYSTERY CRIM (CEN)

Publication Information

New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA, c1997.

Physical Description

892 p. ; 21 cm.

Contents

  • The killer inside me / Jim Thompson
  • The talented Mr. Ripley / Patricia Highsmith
  • Pick-up / Charles Willeford
  • Down there / David Goodis
  • The real cool killers / Chester Himes.

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