London Noir
The city is at the centre of all good crime writing: Los Angeles has Raymond Chandler, Chicago has Sara Paretsky and Mexico City has Paco Taibo. London has the contributors to London Noir who explore the dark underbelly of London and celebrate the triple by-passed heart of England's capital city. They reveal London to be a city of mayhem and depravity not to be recommended to tourists from Miami!
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1852423080
ISBN13:9781852423087
Release Date:April 1995
Publisher:Serpent's Tail
Length:264 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"
Customer Reviews
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Great Sampler of UK Noir
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This collection of fifteen crime stories was commissioned with the notion of capturing the dark side of the city in some manner. This attempt is largely successful, but the book also works as a sampler of modern British crime writers. Among the better stories are: "Perfect Casting" by Christopher Fowler, "Brand New Dead" by Derek Raymond, "A Deep Hole" by Ian Rankin (cf. Knots and Crosses), and "Angel's Day" by Molly Brown. For some reason, other than the Molly Brown story, I found the other female contributions (by Liza Cody, Denise Danks, Jessica Palmer and Liz Holliday) to be rather sub-par. Actually one of the stories that does the best job of showing the underbelly of London is by John Harvey, who has his Nottingham policeman Charlie Resnick (cf. Lonely Hearts and subsequent novels) down in London for a funeral.
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