Chicago Noir: The Classics

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"In this superior entry in Akashic's noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction....Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith (with an excerpt from her novelThe Price of Salt), Stewart M. Kaminsky, Sara Paretsky. Others may be less familiar to mystery specialists, but all turn in impressive performances."
--Publishers Weekly, Starred review

Although Los Angeles may be considered the most quintessentially "noir" American city, this volume reveals thatpound-for-pound,Chicago has historically been able to stand up to any other metropolis in the noir arena. Menohas dug deep into the vaults of Chicago-baseddark fiction and produced a volume like no other that will instantlybecome a vital literary classic.

Author Bio

Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. He is the winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, and a finalist for the Story Prize. He is the editor of Chicago Noir: The Classics and the author of two short story collections and multiple novels including the best sellers Hairstyles of the Damned and The Boy Detective Fails; Office Girl; and his latest novel, Marvel and a Wonder. He is a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.