Los Angeles Noir 2: the Classics

✍ Scribed by Denise Hamilton

• Publisher: Akashic Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 216 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Akashic Noir Series remains at the top of its game. With the recent addition of Dennis Lehane as editor of Boston Noir, and the success of both Portland Noir and Seattle Noir, the series is selling better than ever. Series titles are evergreen.|

From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings you the masters of the genre penning tales of love, lust, and loss in the City of Angels.
Includes classic stories by: Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross MacDonald, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Margaret Millar, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell Gault, Jervey Tervalon, Kate Braverman, and Yxta Maya Murray.
Editor Denise Hamilton****is the author of the Eve Diamond series and the editor of Los Angeles Noir. Her latest novel, Los Angeles Times bestseller The Last Embrace ,...