Baltimore Noir

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Laura Lippman recruits David Simon, Tim Cockey, Dan Fesperman and others to craft a lurid and riveting portrait of the real city of Baltimore, behind the screen of TV shows like Homicide The Wire. |To live in Baltimore - Bulletmore, Murderland, according to one famous piece of graffiti - is to be aware of killing; we have not enjoyed the sharp declines in homicide rates achieved by cities such as Boston and New York. We remain steadfastly in the top five, per capita, year in and year out.| From the introduction by Laura Lippman

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"From the introduction by Laura Lippman: "To live in Baltimore - Bulletmore, Murderland, according to one famous piece of graffiti - is to be aware of killing; we have not enjoyed the sharp declines in homicide rates achieved by cities such as Boston and New York. We remain steadfastly in the top five, per capita, year in, year out. Satistically, two people died while I was working on this foreword... Baltimore has also an odd geographic distinction. It is one of only two major US cities that lie in no county (St. Louis is the other). Landlocked on every side but one, which is water, it cannot expand or annex. Squeezed this way, it is a perfect setting for noir, which depends on an almost Darwinian desperation among its players"."

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Laura Lippman has lived in Baltimore more of her life and has lived in several of the city's distinctive neighbourhoods, including Disckeyville, Tuscany-Canterbury, Evergreen and South Federal Hill.